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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!mail2news.alias.net!myriad!mylinuxbox!suck!netcom.com!stephenk From: stephenk@netcom.com (Stephen Knilans) Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium Message-ID: <stephenkDpoDrJ.177@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <4jv7c9$m5t@park.uvsc.edu> <stephenkDpCsvp.LBu@netcom.com> <4kfkb2$dgs@coyote.Artisoft.COM> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 02:04:31 GMT Lines: 44 Sender: stephenk@netcom15.netcom.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:14291 comp.os.linux.development.system:20946 comp.os.linux.x:28931 comp.os.linux.hardware:35824 comp.os.linux.setup:49649 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:509 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3070 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2852 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16953 In article <4kfkb2$dgs@coyote.Artisoft.COM> Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes: >stephenk@netcom.com (Stephen Knilans) wrote: >] >Running binaries under IBCS2 emulation instead of running them >] >native means no support from the software vendors when the >] >programs fail to run under Linux. >] >] MOST are NATIVE aps! > >No. Most UNIX apps which exist are IBCS2. MOST, of the ones I mentioned, and of those for linux, are NATIVE to Linux! BTW SCO does NOT run IBCS2 programs, but SCO programs which HAPPEN to be IBCS2. There are MANY IBCS2 programs that aren't SCO compatible! > >SunOS 4.x is second, followed by the other non-Intel vendors. > >] >That's why Matorx doesn't think Linux (or BSD) is enough of a >] >market to care to change their policy (a policy which does not, >] >as they purported in David's quotation of them, protect their IP). >] >] This is NOT about Linux! > >Check your newsgroups lines. CHECK THE SUBJECT! > >XFree86 is primarily for the benefit of the free Intel UNIX >clones. Commercial Intel UNIX comes with an X Server, usually >OEM, and XFree86 is limited to Intel. > >This is all about nothing but Millenium support for Linux and BSD. > I don't care about Linux support! NOBODY does! If it was a register compatible card, as it CLAIMS, it wouldn't need special support. Such support is needed by ANY non real mode application! Don't you know about real versus flat, and segmentation, and their affect on a program? PLEASE read a book on 386 programming. THEN, you will see the problem! It ISN'T about linux, or bsd, but ANY non real mode program.