NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/comp/sys/ibm/pc/hardware/36775

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From: [e-mail] (Roger Petersen)
Subject: Re: Viewsonic monitors
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 01:27:27 GMT
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In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware, [e-mail] <Iskandar Taib> writes:

| In article <blah blah> [e-mail] (Roger Petersen) writes:
|
| >The 5E runs at 72 Hz up to 1024x768, which is nice.  But since I run
| >Windows at 800x600 (14" isn't really big enough for 1024x768), it's not
| >as exciting as I had hoped.  (Still handy for other apps., however.)
|
| I think your problem is the Trident card. The Trident 8900C
| chipset was a plot hatched by the Devil to force Windows users
| to move to OS/2 (the Trident is supposedly the only SVGA chipset
| that has decent OS/2 drivers). Dump it and get a Tseng based card.

I don't quite understand your comment, Iskandar.

I don't have any problem getting my Trident + Viewsonic 5E to run
Windows at 1024x768x8.  It's just that the tiny icons and text
are a bit small (on a 14" CRT) for my preference.  Just like Ou Zhao said.

Regarding speed, there is no doubt that there are much faster chips
than the Trident 8900.  I've used a Diamond Speedstar, and it's *FAST*!
But I've never had a complaint about video speed.  (Maybe I'm just not
running the right applications yet.  :-)

Roger Petersen
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