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From: steve@nuchat.sccsi.com (Steve Nuchia)
Subject: Re: Free software and the future of support for Diamond products
Message-ID: <1992Sep13.142036.26842@nuchat.sccsi.com>
Keywords: Diamond, free-software
Organization: South Coast Computing Services, Inc.  Houston
References: <1992Sep10.130359.24767@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <1992Sep11.124831.10108@crd.ge.com> <1992Sep12.035549.4743@zeos.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 14:20:36 GMT
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In <1992Sep12.035549.4743@zeos.com> kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann) writes:
>The solution for the support of X/Windows in the Freeware arena or
>any other arena would be to design a VESA based driver for these

The solution, for those of us who care about such things, is to
not buy undocumented hardware.  Vote with your wallet.
-- 
Steve Nuchia      South Coast Computing Services, Inc.      (713) 661-3301