25 Apr
2002
25 Apr
'02
5:44 p.m.
A fairly trivial case in point - IBM's 24-bit
MCA graphics adapter -
the "Sabine" card set. Several RS/6000 developers that I know claim
that the guy (singular) who developed it designed a prototype, wrote a
driver, and redesigned the hardware to compensate for limitations in his
code. Mark swears there were several cycles of that. The result was a
piece of hardware and its driver that couldn't be ported even to the
next version of AIX.
Doc
Is that why AIX 4 dropped support for the graphics adapter?
Bill
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