support for audio cd discs under Ultrix

[Scott Paisley]

In article <1846 at riscy.enet.dec.com> frank at croton.enet.dec.com (Frank Wortner) writes:

>> Does Ultrix have any ioctls for controlling the CD-ROM (RRD40 I think)
>> for playing audio cd discs?  For example, on Suns there are a bunch of

> Sorry, the RRD40 does not have provisions for playing audio CDs.  I'm
> looking at one right now, and it does not have a headphone jack.

I'm told by my Dec rep that the new CD-ROM drives are going to have
audio out on them.  (yay!)  I asked him why they didn't have audio out
from the beginning, and he said that DEC was worried that the
employees would move them around too much so they could have tunes.
(I doubt that is true, but who knows.)
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