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Date: Sun, 01 Dec 1996 18:22:49 +0100
From: Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
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To: Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
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Subject: Re: more Matrox stuff
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Orlando Andico wrote:

> a somewhat offtopic question: how much do these Matrox Milleniums and
> Mystique cards cost? by all indicates they're very impressive, they have
In Poland they are around $500.

> texture mapping, fog, perspective correction, etc (low-end SGI features
> actually)...
...optional OpenGL support, MPEG

> what's the market for these things? GAMES? (i'd understand the interest of
Games also, the cards are very fast but the main use for them is imaging
and CAD/CAM software, esp. on WinNT (or other OpenGL compliant) platform

> people on this mailing list if there's a huge games market for the things)
> but otherwise who would bother since there's a free X server already?
> (unless people want to make an Allegro driver for pure hack value...  ;)
This goddamned server doesn't work on my card... ;-)

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