From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 1 06:03:59 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA11960 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 06:03:59 -0800 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA11954 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 06:03:55 -0800 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id WAA14293; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 22:03:40 +0800 Date: Sat, 1 Apr 1995 22:03:40 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: FREEBSD-HACKERS-L Subject: Re: Cool sound tools/programs? In-Reply-To: <199504010922.LAA05819@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 1 Apr 1995, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > UltraSound MAX just came in the email today. :) > ^^^^^ > I am just curious how you reassembled the bits. Is that supported by a > some MIME type, such as Content-Type: hardware/soundcard ? It's the backend for his new rep0 (matter replicator) device. You just pipe the contents of the e-mail (really just a Base64 representation of the objects atomic features) into /dev/rep, the repd daemon processes the bits and out it comes in the receptacle connected downwind on the ethernet. FTP and e-mail distribution of software is really handy, so why not hardware too? :) -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org