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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!csugrad.cs.vt.edu!csugrad.cs.vt.edu!not-for-mail From: jaitken@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jeff Aitken) 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: 2 Apr 1996 13:46:17 -0500 Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4jrslp$nkn@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> References: <4j21ph$crr@slappy.cs.utexas.edu> <4j36ev$prl@news.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> <3156F9B5.41C67EA6@rah.star-gate.com> <4jd3ad$2in@park.uvsc.edu> Reply-To: jaitken@vt.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: csugrad.cs.vt.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:14238 comp.os.linux.development.system:20826 comp.os.linux.x:28768 comp.os.linux.hardware:35665 comp.os.linux.setup:49330 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:490 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3042 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2811 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16810 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? :-) -- Jeff Aitken jaitken@vt.edu