From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Are nvidia-cards working with plan9?
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 11:57:10 +0100
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>>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.