On Sunday 30 July 2006 09:25, Dieter wrote: > > You've taken the words out of mouth. The OGC1 is going to be designed > > and marketed to be a general-purpose graphics card, to compete in a field > > that is dominated by nVidia and ATi. In order to succeed well enough to > > be able to create an OGC1.1, OGC2 or whatever, we need to sell lots of > > them and make lots of money. > > A general-purpose card to compete against nVidia and ATi? Are you serious? >
Yes. IIRC, the fields the OGC1 wishes to market to are: - Straightforward 2D & 3D graphics for business/home office use and low-end gaming - PCI graphics cards for dual/triple head setups These fields are, or were the last time I checked, dominated by the cheaper nVidia and ATi cards. Please let me know if this is not correct: I have an entire teaching laboratory full of Linux workstations with low-end nVidia cards in them that says otherwise. I use high-end fully 3D CAD programs on a day-to-day basis (ProEngineer) and they certainly don't do anything that needs fancy features such as programmable shaders and multi-level-texturing. The OGA spec seems ideally suited to them. If the OGC1 had been around three years ago, all those teaching boxes would have had OGC1 PCI cards in them. > And support for serious monitors is now in question. No, it will support the monitors perfectly, once you've programmed the PROM only to use the timing your fixed-frequency monitors require. Are you seriously saying that you don't know _anywhere_ you can borrow a normal monitor for half an hour? > > Putting things like jumpers on a board cost money. Each jumper will > > increase the cost of each board by about £1 > > I wasn't suggesting that the pins need to be lovingly installed by Swiss > watchmakers. If a pin costs a pound the rest of the board must cost > thousands. Neither was I, although I was probably exaggerating the cost increase slightly to make my point. Looking at current pricing, it would be somewhere between £0.50 and £1.00, including stocking, placement, and quality control. For a single header. How many jumpers did you need, again? Peter -- Fisher Society publicity officer http://tinyurl.com/o39w2 CUSBC novices, match and league secretary http://tinyurl.com/mwrc9 Quake II build tools maintainer http://tinyurl.com/fkldd v2sw6YShw7$ln5pr6ck3ma8u6/8Lw3+2m0l7Ci6e4+8t4Eb8Aen5+6g6Pa2Xs5MSr5p4 hackerkey.com
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