Generic comment on slides: Sometimes one hears a talk and later looks over the slides, or, these days, often finds the slides on the web without having heard the talk. It is nice if the slides can remind you of the talk, or better yet, stand alone and get the main points across.
> Until recently, it's been hard to get graphics cards that work well > with Free Software. You mean there *are* some? > Our design is largely a derivative of 1990's-style fixed-function Given the rate of tech progress, "1990's" makes it sound obsolete, practically prehistoric. > We based our design on the OpenGL 2.0 spec but > restricted the features mostly to that of OpenGL 1.3. Would it be accurate to say "OpenGL 1.3 plus some of OpenGL 2.0" ? Hearing that you are getting "more than 1.3" sounds nicer than hearing "less than 2.0". > If you have money to burn, you can donate to the OHF. I would leave out the "If you have money to burn". Who feels that they have money to burn? Maybe something like If your finances allow, you can donate to the OHF. If you have hardware talent, you can assist with the design work. If you have software talent, you can assist with CAD tools, device drivers, etc. If you have a business that could use our chip, we would be happy to discuss it with you. > [When do you expect to release these products] > OGD1 is basically done. We've identified all of the bugs. There are > just some tedious steps remaining to do before we can hand it off to > a board house and have them mass-produced. The other major thing is > OGA1. That's a big open question. One problem is the money. This sounds like it is OGA1 rather than TRV10 that needs the big money. > Prices > change, so we can't say exactly how much it would cost, but we either > need to raise a lot of money, or more likely, we need to find partners I'd leave out the "more likely". Don't want to discourage someone who has an idea on how to raise the money. > with deep pockets who would like no-strings-attached rights to the > techology. I'd make this more generic. Maybe something like "or we need to find partners who are interested in the technology." > The next problem is fabrication. Even if we could design > and finish testing OGA1 infinitely fast, it would still take 6 months > to get chips in our hands. Does it really take 6 months to get a chip fabbed? (once it is layed out and ready to go) This is just everyday vanilla silicon, right? Nothing exotic like bipolar ECL, or Gaas, or bleeding edge feature sizes, ... _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
