From: forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Are nvidia-cards working with plan9?
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 11:57:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000925110001.18FDE19A26@mail> (raw)
>>I can't help but wonder where a lot of other OSes would have been
>>right now if they had not turned their noses up at 'gaming hardware'.
>>It's a good thing that
it isn't a case of turning up noses at games or gaming hardware;
it's often a matter of manufacturers not
releasing the data required to program them, or not without one or more of:
a fuss, NDA, no source distribution, internet lobbying, manufacturer
jumping on linux bandwagon, and reverse engineering.
it's a lot of fuss for a research group once they've got drivers for
a reasonable selection of reasonable cards from reasonable manufacturers,
updated periodically as cards come and go.
next reply other threads:[~2000-09-25 10:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-09-25 10:57 forsyth [this message]
2000-09-25 13:38 ` Conor
2000-09-28 10:18 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-10-02 9:01 ` root
2000-10-02 16:59 ` Scott Schwartz
2000-10-03 0:34 ` Rick Hohensee
2000-10-02 9:01 ` root
2000-10-03 8:49 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-10-04 8:45 ` jiho
2000-10-04 11:55 ` sah
2000-10-04 12:06 ` sah
2000-10-04 9:08 ` jiho
2000-10-02 9:03 ` root
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-10-05 15:10 David Gordon Hogan
2000-10-09 9:05 ` jiho
2000-10-09 9:49 ` Lucio De Re
2000-10-11 8:47 ` jiho
2000-10-05 0:29 okamoto
2000-10-04 13:07 Russ Cox
2000-10-04 13:21 ` Nigel Roles
2000-10-05 8:22 ` jiho
2000-10-05 9:00 ` Lucio De Re
2000-10-09 9:04 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-10-09 10:02 ` Lucio De Re
2000-10-09 12:57 ` Rick Hohensee
2000-10-09 17:46 ` Matt
2000-09-21 8:58 nigel
2000-09-25 9:22 ` MoJoJoJo
2000-09-21 8:27 Henri Philipps
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