AREA:COMP.OS.LINUX
From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY

In article <93080.004021NU013809@NDSUVM1.BITNET>, NU013809@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Greg
Wettstein) writes:

| Before people are quick to point out that they are poor and my company is
| rich and can afford to cut up their cards let me point something out.  This
| note is being written on my home machine, running Linux and XFree 1.2
| at 640x480 on a 5.02 SpeedStar PLUS as I patiently save my money and
| wait to see what type of accelerated chipsets Dave and the boys find that
| they can support.

  The part about the 640x480 is the tipoff... anyone who would run a low
resolution mode instead of adding the simple patches to set the clocks,
and see that as punishing the company... well I hope you don't decide to
punish a car manufacturer, I'd hate to be behind you while you drive in
1st gear because the vendor won't document the gate interlocks in the
shift mechanism.

  You can make an argument about not buying Diamond boards, but to have
one and not use it, or replace it, I just miss the point. But I'm sure
if you want to do something more environmentally sound with the old
cards, you can give them to people who can't afford something that good,
and who don't care if Diamond is politically correct or not.

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bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345