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To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (49309)	11/21/2005 6:18:16 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213186

>>When OSX (officially) moves to x86, you'll be able to create a wrapper for Windows drivers and use all sorts of otherwise unsupported devices with OSX.<< WLD - I'm still not convinced this is true where video cards are concerned, though I could be wrong. The reason I'm thinking video drivers will have special problems is that OS X's display system is very advanced. Putting a wrapper around a Windows driver may allow you to have a working display, but I don't think it will give you access to core image, and the other highly specialized aspects of the OS X display frameworks. Again, I may be wrong, but I believe that even Apple's own drivers didn't support the 2D core image features in the first release of Tiger. - Allen