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- From: dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat)
- Subject: Re: Free software and the future of support for Diamond products
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 13:15:35 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.131535.25380@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
- Keywords: Diamond, free-software
- References: <1992Sep7.133347.4433@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <1992Sep08.093300.898@kithrup.COM> <d0sncm+.harp@netcom.com>
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- In article <d0sncm+.harp@netcom.com> harp@netcom.com (Gregory O. Harp) writes:
- > sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
- >
- > >In article <1992Sep7.133347.4433@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat) writes:
- > >>1) Calling BIOS from a multitasking OS is trick, dangerous, and impossible
- > >> for those of us running SVR3/4
- >
- > >An interesting way to get around all of those: set up a v86 process that
- > >calls the BIOS routines for you. It can be done, and I've seen it (not for
- > >the card in question, however), although I don't recall enough to make any
- > >claims about performance.
- >
- > Yuck. ;)
- >
- > However, that does allow for compatibility with several boards. For
- > example, a VESA version of the X server could be released (I think.
- > Perhaps that's pushing it a bit far...).
- >
-
- If somebody wants to write that and contribute it, fine. We will NOT
- be examining that alternative.
-
- > So, how's the hate-mail campaign going with Diamond? ;)
-
- It's not a hate-mail campaign (yes, I see the smiley). Some people seem
- to think it is. I see it as data collection to be used as evidence to
- support our contention that Diamond is cutting themselves out of a
- significant market.
-
- That said, thing are going well. Our mailbox is over 170kb long. We
- have reports of several thousand board sales lost (pushing 10000). We
- have been contacted by several universities and several consulting
- firms of varying size. We have been contacted by SCO and by S3.
-
- I'll be on vacation next week. When I get back (after wading though
- a huge mailbox), I will tabulate the results and send them to Diamond.
- Then we wait and see.
-
- > --
- > -----------------Greg-Harp----------------harp@netcom.com------------------
- > Love me, love my ferrets. "Break out of the mold before
- > Or at least love my ferrets. ;) the mold sets in" -- B52's
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