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Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Anthony D. Tribelli
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 1995 02:39
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Dan Pop (Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch) wrote:
: Do you have an ISA Mach-64 card, by any chance?

VLB.

: These cards are supported only on systems with 12 MB of RAM or less...

I have 16M RAM, maybe a similar problem?

: ... Like most other problems with free software,
: this one will be fixed when somebody will contribute the needed piece of
: software...

Or hardware for an existing developer. I suspect I don't have a model 
which is close enough to existing Mach64 developer's hardware. I haven't 
compared the chipset against those listed in README.ati.

: ... Nobody gets paid to solve _your_ problems.  Fix them yourself or ...

I would rather work on Open-GL drivers for a new 3D graphics card, but as 
you pointed out that's the problem isn't it.

Tony
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