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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!hobyah.cc.uq.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!prds-grn.demon.co.uk!prds-grn!t.d.g.sandford From: t.d.g.sandford@prds-grn.demon.co.uk (Thomas D.G. Sandford) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium Followup-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 29 Mar 1996 12:39:07 GMT Organization: Paradise Green Technical Services Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4jgllb$1tc@prds-grn.demon.co.uk> References: <4j21ph$crr@slappy.cs.utexas.edu> <4j36ev$prl@news.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> <3156F9B5.41C67EA6@rah.star-gate.com> <4jd3ad$2in@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: prds-grn.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:13732 comp.os.linux.development.system:20122 comp.os.linux.x:27768 comp.os.linux.hardware:34540 comp.os.linux.setup:47502 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:312 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2811 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2589 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16107 Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote: : "Amancio Hasty, Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> wrote: : ] Honestly, as the vga chip vendors battle it out it is going to : ] be harder and harder to get them to allow us to distribute : ] source code to their hardware. : Cool! Amancio has a matter compiler that compiles source code : into hardware! : :-) :-) Have you ever read how INMOS designed the FPU for their T800 transputer? :-)^h^h^h -- Thomas Sandford | t.d.g.sandford@prds-grn.demon.co.uk