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by elpescado 1477 days ago
> OSS is the unix de-facto standard

Is unix actually used for "serious audio"? If not, talking about "de-facto standards" doesn't make any sense.

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Well... there is quite a bunch of "serious audio" software available for IRIX.
Yeah, if I had to guess, I'd bet on IRIX too. But it seems that IRIX uses [AL (Audio Library)](https://nixdoc.net/man-pages/IRIX/man3d/alIntro.3d.html), not OSS.
Irix "uses?"

I'm sure there are one or two SGI boxes still ticking out there, but I haven't booted mine in months.

Does MacOS count?
Does macOS use OSS?
No, but it is used for "serious audio" as in professional music and other media production and is Unix as in Apple went and paid Open Group to certify it as one. I thought this was fairly common knowledge and you'd be trying to refute one or other. But yes, a specific Unix system (macOS) is used for stuff that most people would consider serious audio, and OSS is not involved unless it's hidden somewhere under layers of Core Audio.