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Re: NeoMagic
>I've just looked on the NeoMagic Web site, and I saw no mention at all of
>the fee that they seek for their proprietary information. Do you happen to
>know just how much that fee is?
No - I have to admit that I inferred that this fee is low from the fact that Xi provides a neomagic driver for their X server for free, and this server is only expensive by Linux standards. This was sloppy of me.
In any event, I expect that if they really want to keep their proprietary information proprietary, they won't be selling it on the web! Probably Xi had to negotiate a price with NeoMagic, and sign some pretty strong nondisclosure agreements.
BTW, someone on the thread - almost surely Paul K. - bemoaned the lack of OS/2 support; however, there *do* seem to be OS/2 drivers for most of the NeoMagic chips, posted on their web site!
David A. Ross
ross@math.hawaii.edu
www.math.hawaii.edu/~ross