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10.3: Possibly make older video cards functional again
Authored by: Freebasen on Nov 08, '03 05:28:36PM

In answer...
1. Evidently the creator of this technology is the same guy who headed up the multilink adapter operations at SGI. (can't confirm this). There were a lot of 1600sw sold. It makes sense to sell to nitch markets when that market includes government and medical laboratories.
2. Marketing BS.
3.That is exactly what this is. The difference is that this is an internal solution. It grabs power from the PCI bus. It needs no drivers because it is simply a pass-through solution. Signal goes in / signal goes out.
4. Accelerated video is precisely what someone buying this card would be after. It allows you to use any video card you want and then simply convert the signal for the SGI 1600. No additional drivers necessary.

The only incompatibility I can see would possibly occur in the new model G5's since they use a lower powered pci bus.



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