On Wednesday 23 January 2008, Rudolf Marek wrote:
Hi all,
It appears to be funny. But it's true.
Well most of them run DOS games too - graphics vendors because of old video modes (they check pixel clock etc)
When was the last time you actually _played_ a DOS game on a current machine, without emulation? Where did you get the sound drivers from? This makes it even sader: those use cases are irrelevant by now. In the PC world, hacks seem to live forever. Intel announced a "legacy-free" initiative[1], but they are still sticking to their A20 gate; even the macbook has one. "Bit for bit, bug for bug."
Forunately the DOOM engine is now open source :-]
Well on the other hand Asus server boards are tested with major enterprise Linux distros.
Good to hear that some try to make a difference.
Torsten
[1] http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/speeches/pg021500.htm