* Roy Schestowitz peremptorily fired off this memo:
> NVIDIA 169.12 Linux Display Driver
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>| The NVIDIA 169.12 driver replaces the 169.09 release, which was released just
>| a month ago and consisted of maintenance fixes. Since that, however, NVIDIA
>| had quietly released the 171.05 Linux driver. NVIDIA's 171.05 driver is only
>| endorsed for use with their Tesla S870 GPU Computing Systems, but we have had
>| no problems using this driver with GeForce ASICs. Most notably in this driver
>| update was introducing an nvidia-smi utility, for providing system-state and
>| diagnostic information using the System Management Interface. Interestingly
>| though, today's driver release still resides in the 169.xx branch.
> `----
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> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_16912&num=1
Thanks, Roy. I'm using 169.09 right now for a GeForce Go 7400.
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I laid out memory so the bottom 640K was general purpose RAM and the upper
384 I reserved for video and ROM, and things like that. That is why they
talk about the 640K limit. It is actually a limit, not of the software, in
any way, shape, or form, it is the limit of the microprocessor. That thing
generates addresses, 20-bits addresses, that only can address a megabyte of
memory. And, therefore, all the applications are tied to that limit. It was
ten times what we had before. But to my surprise, we ran out of that address
base for applications within... oh five or six years people were
complaining.
-- Bill Gates, Smithsonian Institution interview (1993)
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