[geeks] RE: Why, oh why, won't they make cards for *my* system?

[Ken Hansen]

I think the cards heed an x86 to run some built-in software to =
initialize the card (firmware) - they Alphas have a trivial x86 =
emulator for just such devices...

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: joshua d boyd [mailto:jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 4:18 PM
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: [geeks] Re: [geeks] Re: [geeks] Re: [geeks] Re: [geeks] T H
E=A0=A0b r i Q



Why are they so useless in a nonPC?  Doesn't XFree still work?  Aren't =
the
G4s supposed to be nearly as good as the P4s?  And wouldn't it be nice =
to
have decent video performance on a non NT, non Tru64 600+ mhz alpha?