From: cummings@hammer.Prime.COM (Kevin Cummings) Subject: Re: S3 Date: 13 Jul 1992 20:45:51 GMT
In article <710924273.F00095@remote.halcyon.com>, Rob.Levin@f217.n3802.z1.fidonet.org (Rob Levin) writes:
> SH> Are the S3 chip specs available from the vendor without paying
> some
> SH> outrageous $10,000 or so "licensing fee" ??? This is what would
> keep
> SH> a good free X386 S3 driver from ever coming about. Either that or
> SH> we'd have to wait for some SVGA graphics book to come out and talk
> about
> SH> the details (i.e. someone else figured it out the hard way or payed
> the
> SH> big bucks).
>
> Typically, the documentation is available fairly cheaply, to encourage
> developers to buy the chipset. That's likely to be the case here,
> though I am not certain of it....
I called S3 last Friday and asked for the spec package. It was
waiting for me in my office on Monday morning. FREE!
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