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From: goer@ellis.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: XENIX drivers for ATI VGAWonder
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.221222.4424@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 17 Apr 91 22:12:22 GMT
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In article <10627@hub.ucsb.edu> 6600joef@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Joe Foster) writes:
>Well, after some long and expensive conversations with both ATI and SCO, no
>driver for the enhanced color and resolution modes exist. ATI says that they
>have provided the information necessary to write a driver to SCO, but they
>wouldn't give that information to me, and SCO wants $400 for technical support
>before they would let me ask for that information. I did cough up the $100 for
>access to SCO's technical support BBS. I hope the info's there. If I get the
>info and am able to write my own driver, I will post that fact here. It will
>take a while, since I have some computer-science classes to deal with as well.

With this kind of obstinacy and short-sightedness, it's hardly any wonder
that the quantity of publicly accessible software available for SCO Xenix
is so limited.  Maybe I'm just a starry-eyed academic, but if someone calls
and says they want to do some free work for you that will make your system
more accessible to users, you hand over some information.  It's not as if
we're talking about trade secrets.  It's not as if letting ATI specs into
the wrong hands will cut into SCO or ATI's business in any way.

Stupid stupid.

(Thanks to Joe Foster for so kindly communicating his efforts to the rest
of us.)

-Richard
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   -Richard L. Goerwitz              goer%sophist@uchicago.bitnet
   goer@sophist.uchicago.edu         rutgers!oddjob!gide!sophist!goer