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From: Ray Auchterlounie <rda@kythera.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 23:43:06 +0100
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Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote:
>Stephen Knilans wrote:
[...]
>] It IS hard to support cards that are made by someone like
>] Matrox though!
>No it's not. Sign the non-disclosure and limit yourself to
>distributing binaries.
[...]
It's harder than that. Unless you are a corporation (eg. if you are,
say, an academic research group) it seems that they wont even talk to
you about it.
Furthermore it appears (from some of the recent postings in this
group) that XInside have an _exclusive_ deal to provide "drivers" for
X/Unix.
ray
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Ray Auchterlounie Research Student (still) at:
<rda@kythera.demon.co.uk> Signal Processing Group
<rda@eng.cam.ac.uk> Cambridge University Engineering Dept.
"Don't ask me about my thesis (TM)"