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- From: bmeyer@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au (Bernd Meyer)
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- Subject: Re: AB3D II beats Quake....
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- Date: 30 Mar 1996 07:05:06 GMT
- Organization: Computer Science, Monash University, Australia
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- Jeroen T. Vermeulen (jtv@xs4all.nl) wrote:
- : Doesn't really answer the question (not really surprising, it being a rhetorical
- : one). SCSI3 controllers are available to us too. The Mac also uses PCI. The
- : Walker will be able to use PCI hardware.
-
- Interesting --- SCSI3 is actually still on the drawing boards ;-)
- :
- : What I meant to say is that there's nothing "PC" about those pieces of hardware,
- : just "mainstream".
-
- If you ever bothered to look at the drivers that come with these cards,
- you'd find there is a lot "PC" about these cards. Most graphics cards
- won't even display text in anything that doesn't at least emulate a PC,
- because the on-board BIOS which is used to initialize the thing isn't
- written in the abstract language it should, but rather in x86 assembler.
-
- : So thanks for taking the time, but I stand by my assertion that "the PC's chip
- : technology is better" is utter nonsense.
-
- So make that "the technology of chips developed for the PC"?!?
-
- Bernie
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