frustrated_staff t1_ja2vg85 wrote
Reply to comment by garlopf in ELI5: in MS-DOS there were not-interchangeable audio cards and we had to manually select it to get sound, otherwise there was none at all. When and why this stopped being a problem? by 3RBlank
Just to clarify: not only did MS make the OS handle a bunch of the stuff, but hardware manufacturers also settled on a (semi) standard method of communication
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