Hello Jim
  At this point I can't give you certainty but I can give you some odds
based on these company's past records.  VIA has been pretty good about
handling their problems and back during the Super 7 era they gained
considerable market share beating Ali in consistently higher quality. 
However once they rose up they have mostly played the mainstream game to
maintain their position especially against Intel who entered the field with
a vengeance around that time, partly due to their battles with AMD.

  nVidia, on the other hand has played the rogue both in their fairly long
term residence in video cards and now, in mainboard chipsets as well.  They
have bucked both Intel and Microsoft and earned a prominent place among Mac
and Linux advocates and they have done this by rapidly producing very high
quality drivers for these less-than-mainstram systems. By comparison,
nVidia is on the "dozenth" version of Linux drivers for video
while ATi, AFAIK, has yet to produce even v1.  While it may be unlikely
that any manufacturer is very concerned, if concerned at all, about OS/2
(since most of them believe it is dead) it seems to me that our biggest
hopes lie in the facts that especially in Europe and Asia many Linux fans
are also OS/2 fans and realize their common posix/unix roots.  I am not a
driver programmer but I understand it is fairly easy to port from Linux to
OS/2 and that is how, for example, we got SBLive support when Creative
dumped us.  The odds aren't particularly good for us in

 any case but it certainly helps that Linux/BSD systems are growing rapidly
in popularity and that nVidia seems very interested in earning loyalty from
power users who more and more choose alternative systems.

  I'll be interested to see comments from those whove actually installed
OS/2-eCs on both VIA and nVidia since up until now, the latest system upon
which I've installed OS/2 is an Intel 440BX chipset.  Filled with ram and
with a hard drive accellerator it still rocks *real* hard.

Jimmy


> Is it worth asking which of these is preferred for an OS/2-eCS mobo?  If
> so, which?
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