[geeks] RE: Why, oh why, won't they make cards for *my* system?

[geoffr]

That's whne you need to be able to code a new ROM for it :)


On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Ken Hansen wrote:

> I think the cards heed an x86 to run some built-in software to initialize the card (firmware) - they Alphas have a trivial x86 emulator for just such devices...
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> Ken
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> From: joshua d boyd [mailto:jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu]
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> Why are they so useless in a nonPC?  Doesn't XFree still work?  Aren't the
> G4s supposed to be nearly as good as the P4s?  And wouldn't it be nice to
> have decent video performance on a non NT, non Tru64 600+ mhz alpha?
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