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From: phil@news.ccutah.edu (Phillip Neiswanger)
Subject: Re: Free software and the future of support for Diamond products
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Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 21:22:39 GMT
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harp@netcom.com (Gregory O. Harp) writes:
: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
:
: > If they aren't willing to open the box to check for documentation,
: >what makes you think they're going to take an opened box back when the
: >board isn't documented or is defective?
:
: Yeah, but what video card company (or SCSI card company, or sound card
: company, or ...) packages technical docs with their product? None
: that I've seen...
:
: [ remaining text deleted ]
It's even worse when companies won't give out any information. My ATI VGA
Wonder was one of those cards that info. was impossible to get. I don't know
if ATI policy has changed, but back when I needed info. about the Wonder
I ended up buying a book("VGA Programming" I think). The authors of the book
even stated they had great difficulty getting info. on the Wonder.
Phil