26 Apr
2002
26 Apr
'02
1:01 a.m.
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Bill Pechter wrote:
Yes. The designer left IBM around then, and nobody in the company was
willing to take it on. Damn shame. It's an impressive _looking_
boardset....
Mark, my boss, says the v3.2.5 Sabine drivers were "the most horrible
pile of kludge" he's ever seen.
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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.
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Is that why AIX 4 dropped support for the graphics adapter?