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From: "Alex R.N. Wetmore" <aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps
Subject: Re: X-windows & Diamond VLB
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1993 08:47:45 -0400
Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.386bsd.apps: 16-Jul-93 Re: X-windows &
Diamond VLB by Bulletin board login@mag 
>       If he doesn't mind spending some more $$$ though he can get BSD/386
> which will soon support the Viper.  That's what I'm getting.  BTW: Last
> night I gave up on NetBSD, not that I couldn't have made it work, but
> it just wouldn't be worth my time considering that I could never run X on
> it.  :(  It really is a shame that Diamond acts that way.  

Wouldn't it be cheaper to just buy a new video card and sell the Diamond
one to a Windows user?

alex