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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
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- Subject: Re: Free software and the future of support for Diamond products
- Keywords: Diamond, free-software
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.124831.10108@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 12:48:31 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep10.130359.24767@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>, dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat) writes:
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- | Well, one of the responses to our Diamond mail survey was from Rick Kemp
- | at SCO. I quote:
- |
- | We have no plans on supporting their cards at anything but
- | 640x480 resolution. They have refused to tell us how their
- | cards work, and we have told all of our distributors to
- | discontinue carrying them (Gateway 2000 and Zeos).
- |
- | So we'll see. The fact that SCO is having trouble doesn't bode well
- | for our winning this battle.
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- Interesting, since SCO has a stealth X driver in their directory on
- uunet. I have very little information about it beyond that.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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