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Microsoft’s first OS, DOS.

The beauty of MIDI files is that they’re tiny in comparison to equivalent

WAV files. The first movement of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, for

example, weighs in at a whopping 78 MB as a high-quality WAV file. The

same seven-minute song as a MIDI file, in contrast, slips in at a svelte 60 KB.

MIDI is hardware dependent, meaning the capabilities and quality of the

individual sound processor make all the difference in the world on the sound

produced.

Speaker Support You’d be hard pressed to find a motherboard without

built-in sound (see Figure 10-40). Every motherboard at the very least

supports two speakers or a pair of headphones, but most motherboards

support five or more speakers in discrete channels. These multiple speakers

provide surround sound—popular not only for games but also for those who

enjoy watching movies on their personal computers. The motherboard shown

in Figure 10-40, for example, has outputs for many speakers.

Figure 10-40 A motherboard with multiple speaker connections

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