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- From: mike@starburst.umd.edu (Michael F. Santangelo)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: S3 question - Amancio, are you there?
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 03:13:46 GMT
- Organization: University of Maryland, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory
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- hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
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- >The January issue of Byte magazine voted the Actix's GraphicEngine32 (801)
- >as one of the best overall graphic accelarated cards for window applications.
- >At least on Byte's tests the 801 was faster than the ATI Ultra Pro (mach 32).
- >And, I really doubt that the tests were executed at low clock frequencies.
- >However, the article did not state the dot clock frequency which the tests
- >were executed at. The other faster cards were based on the 34020 and cost
- >more than $1400.
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- The BYTE article says on p. 206 that they used 1024x768 resolution, 72Hz at
- 256 colors with all the cards in that test that could support it.
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