On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 05:12:00AM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: > On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Daniel Stone wrote: > >Not very many, and their competitirs would then have access to all their IP, so > >could out-do them in the next generation of cards. > > I doubt that it would involve hardware as much as it would > involve the driver aspect and the JIT compiler for the GPU > perhaps. Having never seen the complete source code of any > modern proprietary full featured video driver however, it's very > hard to say.
Well, not all, but AIUI it's becoming less of a pure hardware situation, and more of intelligent software being required, and sort of "showing your hand", so to speak. Then again, I'm *way* out of my depth here, so I'm likely to be way off the mark. I think Mark would probably be the most qualified to speak about this. ;) -- Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.kde.org - http://www.debian.org - http://www.xwin.org "Configurability is always the best choice when it's pretty simple to implement" -- Havoc Pennington, gnome-list
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