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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: ATI is making me mad
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- References: <LABACH.92Dec12220155@acs5.acs.ucalgary.ca> <92349.120353COP80196@UCF1VM.BITNET> <1992Dec16.073836.22047@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:09:29 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec16.073836.22047@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu> frigo@psl.wisc.edu writes:
- >In article <92349.120353COP80196@UCF1VM.BITNET>, Bill Laird <COP80196@UCF1VM.BITNET> writes:
- >>In article <LABACH.92Dec12220155@acs5.acs.ucalgary.ca>, labach@acs.ucalgary.ca
- >>(Terence Michael Labach) says:
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- >>>And don't bother writing to ATI either. At least not if you like
- >>>companies you purchase goods from to reply to your concerns. ATI has
- >>>nice hardware, but seems content to treat their customers like shit.
- >>
- >>That is unfortunate that they treat their customers so badly. In any event,
- >>I think ATI's pathetic support for OS/2 2.0 and full blown support for
- >>windoze M-T is really disgraceful. I don't see why they can't write drivers
- >>for BOTH products. The two are very similar in design, and I'm sure what they
- >>are learning from writing NT code can be applied to development of OS/2 drivers
- >>
- >What I can't understand is that Trident microsystems had drivers available the
- >day OS/2 2.0 was released for general availability and now their new 32-bit
- >drivers are considered HOT. I replaced my old Trident card for an ATI
- >accelerator, but really wonder (no pun intended) if shouldn't have bought
- >a newer Trident model...I think that ATI is a larger company with greater
- >resources if I am not mistaken.
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- Perhaps you should have stayed with the Trident.
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- I've never switched to OS/2 mainly because of problems like this. Looks
- like I never will either if the only decent SVGA one can get is Trident.
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- Anyone who can call anything associated with Trident "HOT" deserves to
- use their cards 9-) No thanks. I'll wait till NT, meanwhile Windows 3.1
- works fine.
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