From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 31 14:02:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA11732 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 31 Aug 1996 14:02:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA11717; Sat, 31 Aug 1996 14:02:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA17985; Sat, 31 Aug 1996 14:58:20 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 14:58:20 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199608312058.OAA17985@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams To: Terry Lambert Cc: richmond@cronus.oanet.com (Raymond Richmond), nate@mt.sri.com, sos@freebsd.org, durham@phaeton.artisoft.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Specs on a Hitachi CM2085me monitor anybody ?? In-Reply-To: <199608312013.NAA00393@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <199608312013.NAA00393@phaeton.artisoft.com> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I heartily agree, being an EE I have on many situations shown CS people > > many a thing about coding and development. In fact my scholastic career > > included more software and development courses than a mainstream CS, plus > > hardware. > > 10:1 the people you showed (assuming "showed" means that they benefitted > from the experience and changed their evil ways) were not video board > BIOS programmers. I doubt you can 'blame' the coders. 99% of the video cards sold have been for platforms running M$ OS's, so therefore why spend the time necessary to have a 'generic' solution when one isn't necessary. Obviously the non-M$ OS's have gotten by with the minimal coding required, so any more time spent doing extra is wasted effort. As you are well aware, getting a product to market quickly is critical in the world of video cards, so the less time spent coding a driver the quicker you can make your bucks before the next generation of chipsets makes the card obsolete. Nate