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Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
> This puppy is going to be a killa dilla!
>
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjM1NQ
>
> " The current Project VGA board has 16MB of SD RAM, Xilinx Spartan 3 s400
> FPGA under 100MHz, and uses the PCI bus. These first-run prototypes will
> cost over $200 USD with no guarantees to work or warranties."
>
> Nvidia and ATI had better watch out because this baby is going to take over
> the market!
>
>

http://www.traversaltech.com/ogd1p_faq.phtml

"What will be the final price for OGD1P?

The estimate retail price will be at least $1500"

Yes, even Matrox is quaking in their boots )

Paul
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On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:06:55 +0100, Hadron wrote:

> Moshe Goldfarb <brick.n.straw.DeleteThis@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> This puppy is going to be a killa dilla!
>>
>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjM1NQ
>>
>> " The current Project VGA board has 16MB of SD RAM, Xilinx Spartan 3 s400
>> FPGA under 100MHz, and uses the PCI bus. These first-run prototypes will
>> cost over $200 USD with no guarantees to work or warranties."
>>
>> Nvidia and ATI had better watch out because this baby is going to take over
>> the market!
>
> Does it support X-Moto?

Yes!
I think they have X-Moto running at 2fps.

I tell ya', this one is going to be a winner!!

--
Moshe Goldfarb
Collector of soaps from around the globe.
Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots:
http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/
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Moshe Goldfarb wrote:

> This puppy is going to be a killa dilla!
>
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjM1NQ
>
> " The current Project VGA board has 16MB of SD RAM, Xilinx Spartan 3 s400
> FPGA under 100MHz, and uses the PCI bus. These first-run prototypes will
> cost over $200 USD with no guarantees to work or warranties."
>
> Nvidia and ATI had better watch out because this baby is going to take
> over the market!
>
>

It's an awesome begining for open source hardware. Today an entry level vga
card, tomorrow... the possibilities are endless. And OSS to boot! Awesome.
No big coporate tax in sight!


--

Jerry McBride (jmcbride@mail-on.us)
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* Jerry McBride peremptorily fired off this memo:

> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>
>> This puppy is going to be a killa dilla!
>>
>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjM1NQ
>>
>> " The current Project VGA board has 16MB of SD RAM, Xilinx Spartan 3 s400
>> FPGA under 100MHz, and uses the PCI bus. These first-run prototypes will
>> cost over $200 USD with no guarantees to work or warranties."
>>
>> Nvidia and ATI had better watch out because this baby is going to take
>> over the market!
>
> It's an awesome begining for open source hardware. Today an entry level vga
> card, tomorrow... the possibilities are endless. And OSS to boot! Awesome.
> No big coporate tax in sight!

Currently, we have the right equipment in our homes for broadband
access.

Who would have believed it in 1980?

In the future, we will have the right equipment for fabricating chip
dies.

Who will believe that we conceived of this idea in 2000?

--
If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's
ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a
complete standstill today.
-- Bill Gates, Challenges and Strategy Memo (16 May 1991)
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