[LAD] No nagging, a serious question

[James Morris]

On 4 July 2010 20:39, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> I once did a MIDI extension for SpeechBasic to program a real time MIDI
> sound sampler on BASIC for the C64, for example
>
> $1810 LDA $DEO6
> $1813 LSR
> $1814 BCC $1810
> $1816 LDA $DE07; read MIDI event byte, usually followed by RTS
>
...
> Some very elaborate Mac and Win audio apps do not need much resources or
> much bytes.
>
> I hope at least one person would understand that I'm not nagging. I try
> to understand Linux code, but it's very long and hard to understand, not
> comparable with the 4 lines above or even not comparable to longer code
> for professional Atari sequencers.
>
> Is there really a reason, I might not understand, to make Linux audio
> that complicated?

Can you not see that Linux is just a little bit more complex than a C64?

Just to begin with, a C64 is a C64, where as Linux is ARM, x86, AMD64,
etc etc etc.