[rescue] Sun 711
Joshua D Boyd
jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Thu May 2 01:11:52 CDT 2002
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 01:34:38AM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On May 2, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > Yes, it is called hardware that publicly say it will do what is needed.
> > Where as an Octane claims that it has no video modes that will do what is
> > needed, even though I believe it can be tweaked to do the job anyway.
> >
> > Further, this is where the affordable IO hardware lives, although at least
> > OS X is here now to deliver some comfort.
>
> Affordable I/O hardware, like the PCI cards that fill my Alphas?
Yes, but refering to things like Truevision, DPS, and Matrox video IO cards
with driver support. Of course all those cards would probably work in
an Alpha if it had drivers (in fact, I think the DPS PVR does have alpha
drivers, for NT Alpha though). Same for a Sun.
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Joshua D. Boyd
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