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- From: potts@oit.itd.umich.edu (Paul Potts)
- Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
- Subject: Local Bus Video - Who's doing it?
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 23:24:33 GMT
- Organization: Instructional Technology Laboratory, University of Michigan
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- Hi all,
- I'm looking for information on Local Bus video. We had been looking into
- buying a Gateway machine with a local bus ATI Graphics Ultra, but Gateway's
- speed in shipping and tech support record has been a little weak for my
- taste. So, then we were going to check out Dell. I called Dell today and
- their tech support told me that their Local Bus Video was *not* VESA-
- compatible, nor did it have slots - it was just an S3 chipset on the
- motherboard with their own interpretation.
-
- I'm looking for a local bus sytem that is VESA-compatible and that will
- allow me to put in a fast local bus video board, like the ATI Graphics
- Ultra implementation of Gateway's, and a local bus IDE controller. Is
- there anyone out there doing multimedia with local bus, or is it two
- early in the life cycle? I don't want to wind up with a motherboard that
- won't work with any later video boards. Does anyone know if Gateway's
- system is VESA-compatible and a solid, robust implementation likely to
- be around for awhile?
-
- Would I be better off buying a straight machine without local bus video
- and putting in an ATI Graphics Ultra? The goal is 320x200 15 frames per
- second video off of hard disk or, eventually, CD/ROM. Is this even realistic?
- We can get a 486/66 ISA machine to start with, but I would like feedback
- on doing digital video in this stage of the technology. If it is going to
- take us several more iterations before it works, I may go with an analog
- video solution for now.
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