David Morano <morano@computer.org> writes:
>
>Wow !  Good question.  I always wondered about how Sun managed to
>multiplex sound out to the SunRay terminals (if they did it at all).  I
>guess they decided to retain the idea of having an audio device
>('/dev/sound/[0-9][0-9]' whatever) per user endpoint.

Not exactly. There is also an LD_PRELOAD library which catches 
opens of /dev/audio and re-directs to (say) /tmp/SUNWut/dev/utaudio/23

Note that SunRays are also not X servers as such either - the display 
is associated with the host as well.

>
>Unfortunately, since Sun solved their SunRay sound problem with having
>multiple audio devices at the server side they pretty much thumbed
>their nose at NAS as a possible solution for that !
>
>Dave Morano
>morano@computer.org
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