On Saturday 05 February 2005 23:13, Timothy Miller wrote: > On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 13:31:35 -0500, Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > By the way, of all the suggestions I've heard so far, I like > > Harbinger the most, it really sums up the project goals. To make > > it more googleable, it could be Harbinger One or something like > > that, with the obvious implication that there will be a Harbinger > > Two. The point is, it's a working name for the _project_, the > > purpose of the name is to help sell the _project_. The final > > branding of the card only needs to be settled by the time it goes > > to market. > > Let's not talk about version 2 before we sell version 1, else we turn > out like Osborne.
1) Osborne wanted little more than $150 for his box though. 2) It's a good idea not to announce a successor before the original is available, but it's also good to know the original won't be an orphan. By the way, a couple of hackers have suggested to me that PCI-Express should come before PCI or AGP. I have my doubts about that, I've got about 8 machines here that can take a PCI card and zero that have PCI-E. PCI-E motherboards out now seem to have only a single 16X plus two 1X slots, so this gets in the way of multihead support unless it's a 1X card. Which wouldn't be that bad a match for the card's 2D/3D drawing capabilities, actually, but it still doesn't sound good. On the other hand, these new motherboards all have two or more PCI slots. This is all by way of saying that starting out with PCI does seem like a good decision, and could even be seen as a feature: it will be a hit with dual- and triple-head hardcore geeks, of which there is no shortage. Regards, Daniel _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
