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- From: daigle@apollo.HP.COM (Joe Daigle)
- Subject: Re: 24 bit accelerator cards
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:54:12 GMT
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- In article <74324@cup.portal.com>, DonH@cup.portal.com (Don - Hirschfeld) writes:
- |> I would go for the Diamond Speedstar 24X which is faster and cheaper
- |> than the 1280 . You can get it for about $160. You have to consider also
- |> the speed of DOS operations. The 1280 was 50% slower than my cheapie
- |> SVGA with DOS. The 24X was 2x the speed of 1280.
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- I too was thinking of getting the 24X. However, I have seen quite a bit of
- bad publicity about their Windows 3.1 drivers. Does anyone know
- if the drivers are bad first hand? Any hope of a fix?
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- thanks,
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- Joe
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