Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 12, 2004 04:56 PM
Why look back on a history that I had to live through as an integrator?
I'll grant you that ATI had some good ideas, back in the w3.0/3.1 days with their windows accelerator cards but, even so, they couldn't come close to the performance of Diamond Multimedia Systems, Tseng Labs and Hercules; and they never really went anywhere with their supposedly great ideas. (Then, of course, VLB hit the streets, and ATI found themselves behind the power curve again.) At best, ATI was a fifth-rate card with buggy driver support--for both DOS and gen-1 windoze. Hell, their Radeon 9700 card doesn't even cut-it with windoze 9x/me (an associate's personal machine).
I don't carp about ATI having crappy Linux support, because it's immaterial to me. I learned long ago that you don't buy crappy hardware, so ATI never makes it in the front door. Hell, I've had less problems with ATI on Linux than I have with ATI on windoze--simply judging by my experiences with customer equipment.
If you like the "Lada of video adapters." More power to ya.
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Re:Good hardware instead of "compatible" hardware
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 12, 2004 04:56 PMI'll grant you that ATI had some good ideas, back in the w3.0/3.1 days with their windows accelerator cards but, even so, they couldn't come close to the performance of Diamond Multimedia Systems, Tseng Labs and Hercules; and they never really went anywhere with their supposedly great ideas. (Then, of course, VLB hit the streets, and ATI found themselves behind the power curve again.) At best, ATI was a fifth-rate card with buggy driver support--for both DOS and gen-1 windoze.
Hell, their Radeon 9700 card doesn't even cut-it with windoze 9x/me (an associate's personal machine).
I don't carp about ATI having crappy Linux support, because it's immaterial to me. I learned long ago that you don't buy crappy hardware, so ATI never makes it in the front door. Hell, I've had less problems with ATI on Linux than I have with ATI on windoze--simply judging by my experiences with customer equipment.
If you like the "Lada of video adapters." More power to ya.
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