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- From: phil@news.ccutah.edu (Phillip Neiswanger)
- Subject: Re: Free software and the future of support for Diamond products
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.212239.13844@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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- Organization: University of Utah Computer Center
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- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 21:22:39 GMT
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- harp@netcom.com (Gregory O. Harp) writes:
- : terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
- :
- : > If they aren't willing to open the box to check for documentation,
- : >what makes you think they're going to take an opened box back when the
- : >board isn't documented or is defective?
- :
- : Yeah, but what video card company (or SCSI card company, or sound card
- : company, or ...) packages technical docs with their product? None
- : that I've seen...
- :
- : [ remaining text deleted ]
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- It's even worse when companies won't give out any information. My ATI VGA
- Wonder was one of those cards that info. was impossible to get. I don't know
- if ATI policy has changed, but back when I needed info. about the Wonder
- I ended up buying a book("VGA Programming" I think). The authors of the book
- even stated they had great difficulty getting info. on the Wonder.
-
- Phil
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