Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 5 Jan 2003 22:34:59 +0000 | From | Ian Molton <> | Subject | Re: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in non-free drivers? |
| |
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003 21:24:47 +0000 (UTC) "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <hps@intermeta.de> wrote:
> Without Microsoft, there wouldn't be 2,4 GHz 32/64 bit microcomputers > with 512 megabytes of main memory, 120 gigabytes of hard disk space > and 1600x1200 pixels 32 bit resolution
> Face it. Microsoft Software is, what made the breakthrough to really > put a powerful machine in every home and allow the 2-5% of the owner > base which are Linux users to get really cheap commodity hardware.
<rant>
BULLSHIT. it may have happened that way, but if M$ didnt do it it would STILL have happened.
I was using 1600x1200 desktops on my Acorn RISC PC about a year, perhaps 2 years, before that sort of resolution was available on the majority of PCs.
Before that I was using an ARM 2 and 3 based A410 which literally blew away all desktops available at the time (286, 386) in terms of performance.
Even today, My A410 can play a game of DOOM at nearly 486 speeds, in truecolour!
This hardware had a british designed processor (ARM) and no INTEL or such chips in sight. Windows never ran on it.
Yet my 15 year old A410/1 remains one of the most useful machines in my house today, alongside an AthlonXP1800+ which, 15 years later, *STILL* doesnt have a DTP solution thats as easy to use as Ovation Pro or Impression Publisher were on the A410.
Only a week ago I used the A410 to draw a PCB layout for an audio amplifier, using software which was supplied IN THE MACHINES ROM, along with the OS.
I shall use the A410 to print the layout at 1200dpi onto transparent film, too.
Not bad for free software on a 15 year old machine
Oh, and the same 15 year old machine can manage a (doublescanned) 1600x600 screenmode too, using dual ported RAM, at negligible speed penalty.
So dont give me this crap that only M$ could provide the sub 500ukp PC with bells and whitles.
All M$ have done is force us all to use turbocharged versions of a jumped up washinmachine control microprocessor, and repeatedly upgrade it to keep up.
No thanks.
</rant> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |