From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: andrey mirtchovski To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] ddc In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20021106104424.I79690-100000@fbsd.acl.lanl.gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 10:50:59 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 15edefd4-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Russ Cox wrote: > Things work well enough that until there are more > pressing reasons, it's probably best to leave vga > alone. > but would it hurt to push your new vga code out? supposedly the benefit of open source is that someone else can do the work for you, however badly. if you're concerned with having to answer lots of stupid questions, that's a different issue :) anyway, hasn't the graphics world come to behave much the same way the CPU architecture world does? one graphics chip to rule them all? i just re-read 'systems software research is irrelevant' (http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/rob/utah2000.ps) and am under the impression that supporting the two major graphics card vendors suffices in 90% of the cases nowadays. andrey