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- Subject: Re: FutureComm XGA card for $350 !
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.194724.17477@midway.uchicago.edu>
- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 19:47:24 GMT
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- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
- References: <1992Dec22.065755.12477@netcom.com>
- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- Keywords: xga futurecomm
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- In article <1992Dec22.065755.12477@netcom.com> samiam@netcom.com (Scott Moore) writes:
- >Comparing XGA to already available and reliable alternatives such as the S3
- >chips, the $500 price is simply not justfied. Sure, the people who are
- >deperate to get os/2 to run propery will buy the card at that price, but that
- >is a limited market.
-
- That depends on performance, basically.
-
- The busmastering may help an awful lot. If you haven't got LocalBus
- or EISA (and most people don't), it could be a screamer on the AT bus.
-
- It is also a fully extensible standard. That's difficult to sell,
- granted, but you never know.
-
- Another nice feature is the uniform, standard support for custom
- refresh rates in all modes.
-
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