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- From: orville%weyrich@tnet.com (Orville R. Weyrich)
- Subject: Re: Free software and the future of support for Diamond products
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.152026.415@weyrich.UUCP>
- Keywords: Diamond, free-software
- Sender: orville@weyrich.UUCP (Orville R. Weyrich)
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- Organization: Weyrich Computer Consulting
- References: <1992Sep12.035549.4743@zeos.com> <1992Sep13.142036.26842@nuchat.sccsi.com> <c3xn+a=.kwan@netcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 15:20:26 GMT
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- In article <c3xn+a=.kwan@netcom.com> kwan@netcom.com (Kwan-Seng Low) writes:
- > If none of the vendor willing to reveal how to set clock on their s3
- >based card, maybe us the users might consider design our own.
- > Here's my dream card: User contributed, VESA compliance SVGA card.
- >Given enough hardware design tools (Orcad, spice,...), one would came up a
- >hardware design that only utilize standard component that's readily available
- >in any large electronics shop (e.g. Fry's in Bay Area). Complete schematics,
- >parts list, how to obtain it, complete doc. on how to build it, everything
- >available on public domain.
- > People has been selling hardware kit for some time, come to think about
- >it, it's something that can be done. In this case, we just have a very narrow
- >focus; we want to build a public domain hardware design that's specifically
- >optimized to run X on PC's unixes. People can take the initial design, perfect
- >it, perhaps adding new chips/parts when they're readily available on the market.
- >
- > any response is welcome, just want to test this idea is making sense.
- >It would eliminate the dependence on vendors when it come to writing display
- >driver.
-
- I seem to recall that someone put together a kit that uses 16550 uarts to
- good advantage and that was optimized for the fas device driver. I don't
- think the design is public domain, but the kit DOES come with full schematics.
-
- I wonder how that item is doing? It might be some indication of how to procede
- as you want to above.
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- orville
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