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To: Longshot who wrote (34860)	7/19/1998 11:47:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 1573215

Longshot, <And software may have to be rewritten to use those new drivers.> Before expressing your opinions such publicly, I would recommend you to familiarize yourself a bit with the subject. The "driver" is exactly a piece of software that was invented to avoid precisely the matter you are "concern" with. The beauty of drivers is that no one need to "rewrite" application software to take advantage from newer faster hardware. That is why good application software may stay the same while people got through DirectX v.3, v.4, v.5, and now v.6 with 3Dnow. As you fairly correctly noted, "especially when is KNI coming soon", you just will have ONE new DirectX (7?) driver soon, but later.