Re: GGI Project Unhappy On Linux

Mark H. Wood (mwood@mhw.OIT.IUPUI.EDU)
Wed, 1 Apr 1998 12:59:11 -0500 (EST)


On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Matthew Kirkwood wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Marek Habersack wrote:
>
> > > make. If you can't buy anything but "shitty cards designed for Windows
> > > 98", what are you going to do? Trade in for an abacus?
> >
> > No, I'll sell my PC and buy some decent Alpha machine (or whatever there
> > will be running Linux). I hope this world has enough common sense to
> > defend itself from the braindamage of Micro$oft...
>
> An Alpha? A _PCI_ Alpha? One which takes the same video cards as a PC?

So Digital Unix and VMS are going to have drivers for WinOnly(tm) video
cards? More likely that business unit will just get DEC's graphics unit
to design a card to order and have the silicon unit run off the necessary
chips. Sometimes vertical integration is your friend.

-- 
Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer   mwood@IUPUI.Edu
One more time:  a (level-2) switch is a bridge.  A "level-3 switch" is
a router.  Deal with it.

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