Dieter wrote:
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> >>> but we have no way of knowing what we would need next year.
> >>
> >> My crystal ball says AGP will go away very soon. My crystal ball
> >> says PCI will go away, but slower than AGP. The problem will be
> >> too few slots per board. (Even worse than now.) My crystal ball
> >> says PCIe will be good for several years.
> >
> > In Linux and BSD, _nothing_ ever goes away.
>
>  Not true, unfortunately, Suse Linux dropped support for the Alpha
>  awhile back. FreeBSD is dropping support for the Alpha.

Suse and FreeBSD are not the whole of "Linux and BSD", there's plenty
of your core market that is running older hardware, and there are plenty
of distributions for them to use.

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> > Part of the mission is to run on the installed base. A lot of that
> > is PCI. Some of it is ISA.
>
>  Surely you aren't suggesting building an ISA graphics card?

Hey, I've still got some ISA boards lying around here. ;-)

Seriously, though, people using older hardware are likely to be using
vintage video cards too -- and most of those are sufficiently "open" to
not present any problem (they're framebuffer cards and the like). Anybody
who's going to pop for a $200+ video card is going to be willing to buy
a $50 motherboard if they need to upgrade.

I believe all of my systems are currently AGP for video, though. And
AMD CPUs (I have been distrustful of Intel ever since the P60 incident,
and the digital snitch CPUs didn't make me happy either).

Cheers,
Terry

-- 
Terry Hancock (hancock@AnansiSpaceworks.com)
Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com

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