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- From: as@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Andrew Stevens)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.linux,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit
- Subject: Re: ET4000/W32 and VESA VL-Bus
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.105250.2720@opal.comlab.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 10:52:50 GMT
- References: <1992Dec16.155355.7416@netcom.com> <1992Dec16.191911.9003@bmerh85.bnr.ca> <1992Dec16.232647.13616@netcom.com>
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- In article <1992Dec16.232647.13616@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec16.191911.9003@bmerh85.bnr.ca> Daniel.Tessier@bnr.ca writes:
- >>In article <1992Dec16.155355.7416@netcom.com>, hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
- >>|> In article <BzBEI1.CH@aeon.in-berlin.de> thomas@aeon.in-berlin.de (Thomas Wolfram) writes:
- >>|> >Hi,
- >>|> >does anyone already using the new ET4000/W32 chip, perhaps in an
- >>|> >VESA VL local bus version? How is the performance compared with
- >>|> >ET4000AX and does it work with XFree86 1.1?
-
- >>|> S3 is faster than the et4000 based technology the reason is because
- >>|> of the server and its use of hardware assisted graphics functions.
- >>|> We are about 6 times faster than an ISA et4000. ...
- >>- "How fast is the ET4000/W32?"
- >>- "The S3 is so fast, it'll blow Suns away"
- >>
- >>Try to keep your preaching/propaganda for people who actually wan it.
- >>--
- >I just copy again how fast is my X server. It appears that you can't read.
- >Later chump,
-
- 1. The ET4000/W32 is *not* the same chipset as the ET4000 we all know
- and love although it is backward compatible (ish?) at the register level.
-
- 2. ET4000/W32 supports 32bit wide access, has hardware assisted graphics
- functions, and a bunch of other goodies.
-
- 3. I don't know of any boards available based on ET4000/W32
-
- 4. Given the above Xfree86, which has no drivers for the
- new facilities in ET4000/W32, would either give 0 xstones (not work!)
- or run at much the same speed as a stock ET4000.
-
-
- Andrew
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