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- From: root@cibbs.UUCP (Mark Buckaway)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: ATI is making me mad
- Message-ID: <3ooNVB8w165w@cibbs.UUCP>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 01:18:13 EST
- References: <1992Dec9.025915.14990@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu>
- Organization: DataSoft Consulting (Toronto, Ont. Canada)
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- frigo@psl.wisc.edu (Sean P. Frigo UW-Madison SRC (608)877-2332,-2001(FAX)) writes:
-
- > Where are the OS/2 drivers? It's been out for 8 months and there's nothing.
-
- OS/2 drivers for the ATI VGA Wonder's and the Graphics Accelerators have been
- out for months. They are the drivers for OS/2 1.3 and work fine with OS/2 2.0
- with the 16Bit GRE. The VGA drivers have been on their BBs for ages (if you
- can get on it!) and the Accelerator drivers have mysteriously appeared
- recently.
-
- > Calling ATI is a waste: A rude person answers that doesn't even acknowledge
- > you've reached ATI. Phone etiquette notwithstanding, I have friends who
-
- Yea...some of their techs need a couple courses in computers...and Customer
- Support...
-
- > have bought UltraPros that now seem like they were not entirely finished.
- > They are buggy and the promised windows drivers a mess. Reading this
- > newsgroup confirms this.
-
- Did you every here the adage that says whenever a company first releases a
- product it is like a widespread beta? I, myself, won't buy any great and
- wonderful "new" product until at least 6 months AFTER it hits the market. Let
- them fix the damn thing first...then buy it.
-
- > I will think very seriously about buying an ATI card in the future.
-
- Mark
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