[Rant] osopinion: Close That Open Hardware! | ANN.lu |
Posted on 12-Jun-2002 00:21 GMT by sutro | 169 comments View flat View list |
A rather unispired article at best. Read
here for more.
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osopinion: Close That Open Hardware! : Comment 16 of 169 | ANN.lu |
Posted by MadGun68 on 12-Jun-2002 07:47 GMT | In reply to Comment 14 (Seehund): Why should Hyperion be forced in to supporting every single piece of
hardware that should happen along? You don't see games makers being
asked to write drivers for video cards by vendors such as ATi. (And
I'd like to see you get information so you can make a driver for an
Nvidia board.)
This door swings in both directions. You can look at it from either a
"Hyperion will write the HAL support for increased OS sales" or "the
hardware vendor will write the HAL support for increased sales." Both
of them apply.
What I find interesting is that it was mentioned here on ANN that
resellers need to configure the bPlan boards before sale. If they need
to spend the time doing that, a reseller can just as easily take a
moment to flash a bios for the AOS 4.0 support. It'll take less time
to do that than configure a motherboard.
Then again, it's not like there are any other POP motherboards
available yet anyways. There are promises of release, but those get
broken all the time. And I still think that an evaluation by a
psychiatrist should be mandated before anyone thinks of purchasing one
of those "Barbie" boards. A whopping two pci slots and no agp (not to
mention a video chip that is seriously out of date.) If they've
changed the design (a lot) they need to take some new photos of the
board.
As a side note on the Pegasos boards.. I don't know about anyone else,
but I'd never purchase a motherboard who told me I was
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