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To: Elmer who wrote (66185)	10/10/1998 3:51:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

VIA came out with a revised "CE" edition of the Apollo MPV3 chipset that corrected the problem of running i740 AGP chipset video cards in July. This was the only problem I know about. Jim

To: Elmer who wrote (66185)	10/11/1998 12:05:00 AM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

EP, <If they didn't give the right specs it would be pretty hard for anyone to make a graphics card, don't you think?> Oh our systems expert Mr. Elmer! Who might be more aware than you that for any two devices to communicate there must be a bus and THE SECOND DEVICE called the "north bridge"... Don't you think that some details of the AGP host protocol might be defined as "up to system designer to implement", and apparently the important details of intel's implementation (upon which the software drivers might be dependent) were left without proper clarifications... <it would be pretty hard for anyone to make a graphics card,> As a matter of fact, it was... :) Just a quick reality check: have you ever tried to design a PCI card (pretty "open standard", eah) just from the [un]published specifications?