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- Subject: Re: 24 bit accelerator cards
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.165141.1@ualr.edu>
- From: djlewis@ualr.edu
- Date: 25 Jan 93 16:51:41 GMT
- References: <1993Jan25.045933.24598@netcom.com> <74324@cup.portal.com>
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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.
- Sounds like a good SVGA card if it out paces both the 1280 and the 24x. But
- then it seems with most cards that use an accelerator for windows forget all
- about the need for fast dos.
- Don Lewis
- <djlewis@ualr.edu>
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