alt Hacker NewsThis was very common at the time. I suspect there was a technical reason, maybe freeing up the CPU and memory from dealing with music and offloading that to the CDROM drive.
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formerly_proven • yesterday at 9:25 PM
There's a reason you used to have a separate four-pin cable going from the CD drive to the sound card ;)
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It was just a standard way to play CD-quality audio tracks (by actually playing CD audio tracks!).