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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 Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!netserv.com!news.clark.net!netjam!snm.com!netcomsv!uu4news.netcom.com!netcomsv!uu3news.netcom.com!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!stephenk From: stephenk@netcom.com (Stephen Knilans) Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium Message-ID: <stephenkDox1J9.C33@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <4j8s8a$q8b@newstand.syr.edu> <stephenkDovrzv.E38@netcom.com> <4jage6$5vn@news1.halcyon.com> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 07:45:09 GMT Lines: 30 Sender: stephenk@netcom20.netcom.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:13789 comp.os.linux.development.system:20212 comp.os.linux.x:27894 comp.os.linux.hardware:34677 comp.os.linux.setup:47754 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:338 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2837 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2618 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16201 In article <4jage6$5vn@news1.halcyon.com> tzs@coho.halcyon.com (Tim Smith) writes: >Stephen Knilans <stephenk@netcom.com> wrote: >>> HOWEVER, as has been pointed out, you don't need to reverse engineer the >>>drivers! What would that get you anyway? We'd know how to write drivers for >>>Windows 95? No, what needs to be done is to figure out what code to use for >>>the hardware. We wouldn't be using any Matrox code and they don't have the >>>right to say you can't use their hardware in a specific way! It's a simple >>>black-box problem. For given input, what is the output? >> >>Have you ever TRIED what you suggest? Do you have any IDEA how many adressess >>would have to be checked? Some graphics cards have registers to registers, and >>you have to KNOW of their existence unless you want to spend 100s of years of >>research. With the program, it takes a few minutes/hours. > >Soft-ICE. > >--Tim Smith I presume that is supposed to be a program that is supposed to simplify such things. How on earth could it asertain anything from a register used to change another register, or an address line? Especially since I have seen such things that were time dependant. Steve Frankly, I feel it is silly to play such games to emulate software you already have on one platform to get another companies card to do what they advertised it as being able to do!