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Re: Matrox driver

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tholen@antispam.ham wrote:
> As I understand it, SciTech got out of the video driver business because
> hadware vendors were no longer making information available about their
> video cards, making it hard to write an OS/2 device driver for their
> hardware.

I think a big part was that once IBM dropped OS/2 support they lost 
their biggest customer and could no longer make a business case for 
continuing development.

>
> However, Matrox has just released the driver source code for their
> M series of video cards.  I wonder if someone in the eCS development
> community could port the Matrox driver to OS/2?  Matrox could become
> the preferred video card for OS/2-eCS users.
>

How recent are these cards? Do they come in PCI-X versions?
Dave

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