#Altamira Composer
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So, why they are waiting to take all the power of that boards? I don't know
anything about programing, but I'll buy such drivers from Panacea or Vibrant in
just a second. But it could be better Autodesk or the makers of the board (in
my case, Truevision) put the drivers just on the box. Or like you have said, an
normalized interface to make things easier to the thrid parties. At last, it
couldn't be that difficult to allow the program to support i860s or TI34020s
directly (or not? <g>) BTW, I think that the last version of Topas support
multiple i860, but I'm not sure of that. Have to check. It's kind of idiot to
have all this horsepower there and your 486 "sweating" each pixel out. BTW,
have I missed something or the new Vistas have take the 34020? If I'm not
wrong, I think that even the new ones have the 34010 but at 60MHz (60MHz? I
have the TV1024-32 with a 34020 at 60MHz and it is off!) Hope the Adesk guys
hear your hint. And hope Truevision is writing some good drivers and/or IPAS to
launch their awesome DVRs. Yes, we always have had promissing hardware, but…
where's the software <g> -well, you can substitute that to where's the
operating system?-
I know that Microsoft have got the Silicon Graphics libraries to an hipothetic
Windows NT 3D (direct from microsoft techies from the Windows NT spanish press
presentation). But it could be great that IBM put some kind of graphics
oriented OS/2 in the market (I said that because I know that there are IBMers
tracking the forum 🙂
Thanks for the info!
ana /krazy images
Well, this is one of those stories. A driver of such magnitude could cost well
over a million in development alone. The market isn't that big to justify such
expenditure and, at the same time, it isn't big enough exactly because we don't
have those drivers. To get matters worse, it's not easy to make a decision as
to what OS to write the drivers for. DOS is going down as fast as the space
shuttle on reentry. DOS development has, if not halted, gone well bellow the
threshold of bringing in new technologies. Windows is a joke. NT and OS/2 are
two big white whales swiming awfully close to shallow waters ready to get
grounded for good if a new course is not taken. Chicago is far from being a
reality. Take a look at Michael Miller's article in the last PC Mag (Sep 23).
He talks about similar situations (albeit in his peculiar blind vision).
Microsoft and IBM try to lure people to their environments but who will
ultimately make the decision are the applications people use. Find an OS that I
can just plug in my machine, have all my weird hardware to work and the
software I use to run better and I will switch in a minute. There isn't such a
thing. DOS, and its silly [MS Windows] GUI, is still the only OS able to do
that.
Yes, I have read that article -but I found it in the Sep 28 issue :)- (I
usually read all of them, specially John Dvorak's one: because I'm a masochisc
and like to read how many stupid things a man could put in page each 15 days. I
think that I will write a list of all the stupid rumors and "facts" that he
have put in his pages and send them to pcmag asking if this is serious press or
what)
I expect that kind of answer about million-cost drivers 🙁 It's like the dog
trying to follow his own tail.
Thanks for all the clear points 🙂 ana /krazy images