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rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:

>C-c-c-combatability and standards!  First, I wouldn't buy such a card
>unless it was SVGA compatible, or would exist with my current SVGA
>card.  I'm not giving up all the rest of the software for such a card.

Hel-lo, wake up!  It wasn't too long ago that SVGA came out, and its
compatible with VGA, EGA, and CGA.  Duh, how did they manage that?

>Second, what's the incentive to write for such a card (other than the
>technical thrill)?  It's like writing for smaller market computer.
>Obviously there will be some people writing for it, but you have to
>get the big companies interested.

You could have said the same thing when SVGA was proposed.  All it needs
is to take off and everyone will support it.

By the way, I was only making a rhetorical question.  The obvious reason
there is no game graphics card for the PC is that it is not meant to be
a game machine.  Despite the vast number of PCs out there, a relatively
low percentage of them are used for games (but its still a lot of PCs).

Incidentally, Nintendo claims that one in three households in the U.S.
owns a Nintendo Entertainment System.