[Gllug] Geforce2

David Damerell damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Wed Jan 23 14:53:13 UTC 2002


On Wednesday, 23 Jan 2002, Vincent AE Scott wrote:
>>Nonsense. What happens out on the SCSI chain or on the network is
>>specified by standards, but for that matter what happens in the
>>monitor cable is too. The interface your computer sees varies very
>>much from card to card.
>yeah, but you dont see any proprietry super fast additions to the
>ethernet or SCSI interfaces.

For that matter, it is years since anyone has had a non-standard
extension to what happens between graphics card and monitor. What's
your point?

>>Yes, but no-one is proposing we do that. Changing the behaviour of
>>graphics card manufacturers? Won't be the first time.
>yep, but only when it's a sizeable percentage that gets the attention of
>those within a company that actually make decisions based upon
>quantifiable values.  

And we know, from our experience with Diamond, that the Linux
community was large enough several years ago. So what's your point?

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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