Re: PulseAudio--is there a viable alternative?

[Paul Johnson <baloo@ursamundi.org>]

On Monday, February 4, 2013, Darac Marjal  wrote:
> Actually, that depends on the hardware. If your hardware can do hardware
> mixing (I know of at least one SoundBlaster that can, but I can't
> remember which model at the moment), then you can play simultaneous
> streams. But for most cards, you have to rely on software mixing (dmix,
> pulse, jack etc).

SB Pro 128 did it, I know that one for sure because knowing how much of a pain things like esound and PA are, it was the card I strongly recommended to everyone regardless of what platform they chose.  Especially since it was only something like $5 more than the less capable hardware available at the time.