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Re: device3dfx-source ?



Jon,

You could be right.  I don't do 3d on Linux yet and don't have a 3Dfx board.
But, personally, I'd be a bit leery of buying hardware that I _knew_ was going
to be orphaned soon.

dar

On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Jon Pennington wrote:

> "David A. Rogers" wrote:
> >
> > You might want to rethink your purchase.  3dfx is going out of business early
> > in the new year.  They have sold their intellectual property to nvidea.
>
> In business or not, 3Dfx hardware is arguably still the best-supported
> and most-fully-functional fast 3D using Free software.  Regardless of
> whether or not there will be new products from nVidia based on 3Dfx
> designs (I'm sure there won't be), GLide is still 100% free, and the
> drivers can still be tweaked and tuned to be faster than they currently
> are.  But I'm not bitter...;)
>
>



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