[SunRescue] Silly Question.

Gregory Leblanc gleblanc at cu-portland.edu
Thu Jan 20 14:56:25 CST 2000


James Lockwood wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> 
> > I thought that Matrox was reasonably decent about releasing programming
> > information?  Their cards aren't all that good at 3D, but they're the
> > best that I've ever seen at 2D.
> 
> Not much point in writing drivers for 2D cards as the PGX32 has a
> reasonable used price.  The only real lack in Sun's lineup is h/w
> texturing.

Well, I guess you've got a point there.  I have to say that the 2D from
that ATI Rage, Rage II, Rage Pro, etc is really poor, even compared to
an old Matrox Millenium II.  I imagine that the G200 and G400 are MUCH
better.  Maybe I'll have to sit down and learn C and SPARC assembler.
	Greg






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