Re: GGI Project Unhappy On Linux

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 27 Mar 1998 20:41:59 +0000 (GMT)

> > An Alpha? A _PCI_ Alpha? One which takes the same video cards as a PC?
>
> May I point out that even tough both architecture share the same bus architecture (PCI), I doubt that a graphic card designed for Win98 will work on an Alpha. So there will always have sane PCI cards designed for alphas.

Of course they will be the same. This is the whole point of PCI. In fact there
are Alphas now which ship without text mode support on their PCI cards.

Its not a "designed for Win98" - its an "oh thank god we can dump that
performance sapping set of weird old PC features". It also means the
'two video cards is always hard on a PC' rubbish dies with it.

Alan

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