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- From: edwardm@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com (Edward McClanahan)
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 01:38:02 GMT
- Subject: Re: ATI ultra drivers
- Message-ID: <115320002@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
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- Jerry Schneider writes:
-
- > Today, I feel like one of those fools who bought a top-of-the-line
- > product from DAK, only to find out that the reason it was such a
- > "bargain" was because it was not compatible with anything else, and
- > no longer supported by the manufacturer.
-
- > After carefully reading (and then desperately re-reading) the list
- > of supported hardware for the October NT release, I was dismayed
- > to find there was no 8514 support, and in particular no ATI Ultra
- > drivers. Gosh, I bought the ATI card because it was a superset of
- > the 8514 hardware, and even though I knew that ATI had a lousy reputation
- > for delivering drivers for their products, I just _knew_ that the
- > 8514 was going to be supported by Microsoft.
-
- > The MS NT announcement suggests that 8514 and ATI support will be
- > available "some time in the future". From this, I can only assume that
- > they are not developing drivers in house, but instead, are waiting
- > for ATI to supply them. This sounds a lot like Microsoft's earlier
- > philosophy about letting each printer manufacturer write their own
- > drivers for Win2.0. After a year of sparse printer support, buggy
- > third-party drivers, and howls of laughter and complaints from end
- > users, the Win3 group decided that they must write drivers for the
- > "main stream" peripherals.
-
- > ...
-
- Did you notice that the Oct'92 H/W Compatibility List included
- the Gateway DX2/66V - a 66MHz DX2 system with VESA Local Bus
- and the new ATI Mach 32 Ultra Pro VL-Bus card? Does this mean
- that NT must use a lowly 640x480 VGA-compatible mode on the
- ATI card? I recall that the old (Mach 8) Graphics Ultra had
- (added to the 8514 Ultra) a 640x480 VGA compatibility mode. I
- didn't know that the new Ultra Pro had this same support...
-