> I have been thinking. Will the band width of the PCI port be reached, and
> the AGP and PCI-e will therefore preform better?
For a great many things, yes. 2D makes more efficient use of the
engine (even though it's a 3D engine), because 3D tends to work with
smaller triangles. Change bus, and you'll notice a marked speedup in
3D stuff. Or you won't, since you're not using it to play Doom 3. :)
I am surprised that the PCI slot is that slow.
I think we'll pull the same trick as everyone else and charge extra
for "shipping and handling". Also, there will be volume discounts.
If you and your entire users group want to buy 100 of them in a shot,
well, I'm sure we can discuss some better terms for you. :)
Well, that's not so bad =)
You mean practice your cold-calls? Honestly, at this point, I think
it would be best to focus our energy on figuring out how to market the
project board. Then when that starts selling, we can figure out how
to market the ASIC and the graphics card.
Let's to that then.
You seem to have a marketing flair. Let's put that to use first
figuring out who will buy the project board (I'll get you a copy of
High Fisher's essay on it), and have a huge list of universities ready
to call. We need names of people who make decisions, like professors
and heads of IT departments, not to mention universities themselves
(I'll take care of Ohio State). When we have the first 10 prototypes,
ready to photograph and put on the web, then we hit them up for
orders.
Sounds like a good idea. I have connections at Denmark's Technical University and know of hardware courses.
They would be very UNinterested. Although we don't represent much
competition to them, we do represent a market segment that they cannot
be a part of, at least not without a lot of flak. They'll want to
have nothing to do with us.
The way I would present it is; OGP is not supposed to be a competitor to nVidia's or ATi's cards, but rather a new product line besides the high end cards. OGP have advantages that the other cards doesn't have and can't have because of patents that are in the drivers and chips. High end cards for gamers and raytracers, and OGP for offices, libraries, laboratories and Internet cafes.
Alan Cox talked with me about getting the drivers into main-line
Linux. If we're polite, it'll happen.
Official supported by Linux. That's good PR! =)
Oh, me too. That's going to be one of the coolest things, seeing how
people make use of the hardware in ways that we didn't expect or
intend. They'll know 95% of it from the start, but when the RTL comes
out, they'll find, I'm sure, a few more quirks to play with.
I would expect a driver written in Perl to be one of the hacks =)
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