Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:20:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Michael John Pelletier <mjpell@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please read; I thinking about buying a laptop... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971013001901.9609n-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.971003204722.mjpell@earthlink.net>
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On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Michael John Pelletier wrote: > Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions. I will > look at the Digital stuff now... I saw one of these the other day, it's a nice box. Drawback: Uses NeoMagic graphics cards, and NeoMagic has a proprietary-hardware-has-some-advantage complex and won't release the programming specs for their cards. Translation: You have to buy the X server from XI Graphics if you want X. Not to say XIG is a bad place, they've been FreeBSD supporters for years. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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