I agree with Ray in the long term as existing hardware dies out, say 
5-10 years, not quite in the immediate here-and-now.

For those taking refuge behind Matrox, I fear they are the Maxtor of the 
graphics cards, too good for their own good, steadily being 
marginalized, heading towards an inevitable takeover by a bigger 
schlockier competitor some time.

One obvious buyer would be M$. What likelihood that they would continue 
to sell SNAP with existing levels of OS/2 support, let alone extend OS/2 
support to new chipsets?

Wonder why they think SNAP's  worth moving away from? Consolidation in 
graphics market as AMD buys ATI? (Or another of Intel's strategic 
anti-competitive actions behind the scenes?) Something in the design of 
Vista which makes it impossible to access the functionality SNAP needs 
to touch (the antivirus people are still complaining they can't get to 
the parts of core OS code that they need access to...)? Non-graphics use 
of the GPUs increasingly fouling up their paradigm?

Now here's a  good opportunity for going Open Source, I would think. 
With a bit of brain-sweat-and-tears from the Linux gurus, SNAP could 
become the dominant  industry paradigm for driving peripheral chipsets 
(surely Linux distros could do with a massive reduction in the numbers 
of drivers for every conceivable device).

Alternatively Bob should be encouraged/helped to buy SNAP just for the 
sake of eCS...

How much do they want?


Eugene Tucker wrote:
>
> Felix Miata wrote:
> >
> > On 2006/11/16 18:07 (GMT-0800) Ray Davison apparently typed:
> >
> > > Then we had better find someone to fund SNAP. Because right now all
> > > versions of OS/2 are dead without it.
> >
> > Already supported hardware is not dead. That should last most of us for
> > quite some time. Old PCI Matrox cards work just fine in newer boards
> > that lack AGP slots. Same goes for lesser legacy PCI video cards. New
> > AGP boards aren't going away for a while yet either.
> > --
> > "Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven."
> > Matthew 5:12 NIV
> >
> > Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409
> >
> > Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ 
> http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/> http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ 
> >" target="new">http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/>>
> >
> >
> You know every time this has happened in the past people have given up
> and left OS/2 or eCS. If we look at the future was Snap going to be
> around for Voyager? positive. No doubt this is a fall back but we need
> to remain calm.
>
>  


 
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