#24x .FLC
10-Oct-92 11:26:15
Sb: #24630-#24x .FLC
Fm: Eli J. Boyajian 75410,751
To: Chris Edgington @Panacea 71022,342
Chris,
I'd expect you to say nothing less than Panacea is 'the world's leading
provider of display list drivers…' And, I'm sure if the Diamond rep was
participating in this thread, the same back-patting remarks would come
spewing forth from his keyboard. Everybody's a good guy, right?!
The point is Diamond didn't happen to mention that the drivers were beta,
or that registered owners could soon expect a working replacement. I'm not
even certain there _is_ and upgrade path to the Turbo-DLD drivers for users
who just purchased the board, though I think there should be. After all,
aren't Diamond and Panacea deriving benefit from all of us who are
apparently beta testers? You get to hear firsthand feedback of how well
the product is performing.
And please, give the ole market pressures whine a rest, o.k. Who cares how
difficult it is to bring products to market, and to time their arrival with
working software, and release dates, and ship dates, and slipping dates and
on and on. If you and Diamond can't somehow get it together, find a better
alliance. As far as I can tell, there are a lot of companies which are
releasing quality products that at least work.
Eli.