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- From: tallur@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (kumar.talluri)
- Subject: Re: Anyone heard of Pittsburgh Powercomputing?
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 12:38:42 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.123842.16637@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
- References: <2B309924.23C4@telly.on.ca> <1992Dec18.161027.24746@xzaphod.uucp>
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- >In article <2B309924.23C4@telly.on.ca> evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
- >>This company is listed amongst the companies providing third-party X
- >>servers for Univel, right next to the more-familiar MetroLink and SGCS.
- >>
- >>Who are these guys? Has anyone used their products? And why haven't we
- >>heard more about them?
-
- USL's X server dynamically loads the appropriate drawing libraries
- (ex: vga16, vga256, ATI_ultra, so on) at run time; We call
- these 'Screen Display Drivers' or SDD's).
- The 'CORE' X server is the same, irrespective of the card you have.
- USL provides the 'CORE' X server and two SDD's, (libvga16.so and
- libvga256.so that support most of the popular VGA/superVGA cards)
- with the foundation set.
-
- Pittsburg Power sells SDD's for S3 based boards and ATI's Ultra boards. They claim about 45K Xstones on S3 (911) and about 85K on ATI's Ultra
- cards. We have a beta copy of their SDD's which are good.
- Hope this helps, good luck,
- kumar
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