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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium
Date: 4 Apr 1996 01:08:53 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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jaitken@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jeff Aitken) wrote:
] 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!
]
] I wonder what would happen if you threw the Windows '95 code into this
] thing and turned it on. What do you suppose you'd get? :-)
Ever read K. Eric Drexler?
I believe he calls it "the gray goo scenario".
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.