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- From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
- Subject: Re: X386 and Diamond Stealth: not solution
- Message-ID: <l0lnhhf.hasty@netcom.com>
- Date: Fri, 04 Sep 92 01:45:55 GMT
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <Bu04w2.2u3@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> <9460@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
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- In article <9460@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> sb@next.neuro.emory.edu writes:
- >>
- >> I had just made up my mind to buy a Diamond Stealth when I heared about
- >all
- >> this trouble. Well, I am looking for cards from other vendors now.
- >> So maybe you should give them a list of people who are _not_ going to
- >buy a
- >> card from them, unless they change their policy.
- >> If you are doing so feel free to put my name on it.
- >> --
- >> Andreas Klingler
- >> asklingl@informatik.uni-erlangen.de
- >> I'd love to help you out... Which way did you come in?
- >
- >
- > I was just about to buy a Diamond Stealth also, but not now that
- >I've heard about diamond's uncooperative attitudes. With the rate
- >that technology changes these days, you'd think that companies
- >couldn't afford these kinds of policies.
- It would help a lot if people would call up Diamond and express
- politly their opinion. For instance, I explained to a Diamond
- marketing person why I was taking my Stealth back - I can't
- write an X11R5 device driver to your card because you use
- a propieratory mechanism for setting the clock values on the Stealth.
-
- Also, be aware that future Diamonds svga cards not just the Stealth
- will not be supported by X386 due to their new novel way of setting
- the clock values.
-
- So call or write to Diamond, if you want to enjoy Diamond products.
-
- From my view, Diamond's strategy poses a bad precedence.
-
- Amancio Hasty
-
- >
- >
- >
- > Steve Berger (sb@onripx.neuro.emory.edu)
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