From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 13 00:20:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA25999 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:20:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA25994 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:20:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA10536; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:20:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:20:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Michael John Pelletier cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please read; I thinking about buying a laptop... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Michael John Pelletier wrote: > Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions. I will > look at the Digital stuff now... I saw one of these the other day, it's a nice box. Drawback: Uses NeoMagic graphics cards, and NeoMagic has a proprietary-hardware-has-some-advantage complex and won't release the programming specs for their cards. Translation: You have to buy the X server from XI Graphics if you want X. Not to say XIG is a bad place, they've been FreeBSD supporters for years. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major