Asmita Halasgikar (Technosoft Corporation) wrote: > > > > I started exploring the windows audio APIs in the reverse order of > their coming into existence. (WASAPI, then wave and dsound) > This has absolutely nothing to do with your question, of course, but the multimedia wave APIs predate the DirectSound APIs by many years. The waveIn and waveOut APIs arrived with Windows 3.1 in 1992. DirectSound is a 32-bit API, and did not arrive until after Windows 95. -- Tim Roberts, timr@xxxxxxxxx Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.