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From: t.d.g.sandford@prds-grn.demon.co.uk (Thomas D.G. Sandford)
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Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium
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Date: 29 Mar 1996 12:39:07 GMT
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Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote:
: "Amancio Hasty, Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> wrote:
: ] Honestly, as the vga chip vendors battle it out it is going to 
: ] be harder and harder to get them to allow us to distribute 
: ] source code to their hardware. 

: Cool!  Amancio has a matter compiler that compiles source code
: into hardware!

: :-) :-)

Have you ever read how INMOS designed the FPU for their T800 transputer?

:-)^h^h^h

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Thomas Sandford | t.d.g.sandford@prds-grn.demon.co.uk