On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 02:27:20 -0500, Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1) Osborne wanted little more than $150 for his box though. 2) It's a > good idea not to announce a successor before the original is available, > but it's also good to know the original won't be an orphan. Alright. If we name the first one Harbinger, then we'll name the second one Enforcer. :) > By the way, a couple of hackers have suggested to me that PCI-Express > should come before PCI or AGP. I have my doubts about that, I've got > about 8 machines here that can take a PCI card and zero that have > PCI-E. PCI-E motherboards out now seem to have only a single 16X plus > two 1X slots, so this gets in the way of multihead support unless it's > a 1X card. Which wouldn't be that bad a match for the card's 2D/3D > drawing capabilities, actually, but it still doesn't sound good. On > the other hand, these new motherboards all have two or more PCI slots. > This is all by way of saying that starting out with PCI does seem like > a good decision, and could even be seen as a feature: it will be a hit > with dual- and triple-head hardcore geeks, of which there is no > shortage. PCI-Express is more difficult and will be more expensive. Also don't expect the card to use 16 lanes. NOBODY is doing 16-lanes. Be happy if you get 4 (which is what's natively supported by one of the future Xilinx chips). _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
