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  2. From: gt0040a@prism.gatech.EDU (Tom Sorensen)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
  4. Subject: Re: OS/2 Drivers for Diamond
  5. Message-ID: <65761@hydra.gatech.EDU>
  6. Date: 12 Aug 92 15:10:13 GMT
  7. References: <22723.689.uupcb@spacebbs.com>
  8. Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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  11. In <22723.689.uupcb@spacebbs.com> michael.hagerty@spacebbs.com (Michael Hagerty) writes:
  12.  
  13. >I get real uncomfortable thinking about the 32-bit engine and its soon
  14. >release.  This may provide S3 with an excuse for slipping the 16-bit
  15. >drivers, claiming that they would rather do the 32-bit ones instead.
  16. >We would then have exactly nothing...  Regards, Mikey
  17.  
  18. Why shouldn't they? If they develop 16-bit drivers now (ie- had them out
  19. TODAY, which obviously isn't possible) they wouldn't support seemless windows,
  20. and when you got the 32-bit GUI they wouldn't work at all. What would you have
  21. then? Exactly nothing. <g>
  22.  
  23. As a consolation- the 32-bit GUI is supposed to ship w/ many SVGA drivers for
  24. popular boards. With luck the S3 chipset will be among them.
  25.           Tom Sorensen
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  28. Tom Sorensen              gt0040a@prism.gatech.edu
  29. "I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system,
  30. and possibly program, of all time." - Bill Gates, November, 1987
  31.