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- From: wiegand@rtsg.mot.com (Robert Wiegand)
- Subject: Re: need advice for graphics card for OS/2
- Message-ID: <wiegand.727714121@lido16>
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- Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
- References: <1j79eiINNnjp@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> <mortenk.181.727555938@dhhalden.no>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:48:41 GMT
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- In article <1j79eiINNnjp@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> slug@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Wowbagger The Infinitely Prolonged) writes:
- >
- >I am about to purchase a 486-66 with 16 megs of memory, and I am in dire need
- >of advice on which graphics card to buy.
- >
- >I am looking for a high-powered accelerator card, and my price range is up to
- >$600.
- >
- >The catch? I need it to work well (and at full-speed) under OS/2 2.0. I was
- >considering the ATI Graphics Ultra Pro, but local bus versions are only
- >available to OEM suppliers, and there are very few of them. Gateway and
- >Hyundai are the only 2 that I've found.
- >
- >How are the ET-4000 based and S3 based cards? I see many local bus versions
- >of them and some claim up to about 50 million winmarks (2x the ATI Pro), but
- >what about their OS/2 support? Did the Service Pak include drivers for them
- >and if it did, what resolutions are they and are these cards fast under
- OS/2?
- >
-
- ET4000 cards are supported by OS/2, but this is a standard SVGA card,
- not an accelerated card.
-
- I don't believe S3 drivers are available yet.
-
- I have heard that non-IBM XGA cards should be available soon. I don't
- know if they are out yet, but if they are they would also be a
- good posibility.
-
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- Robert Wiegand - Motorola Inc.
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- Disclamer: I didn't do it - I was somewhere else at the time.
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