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- From: morgan@dl5000.bc.edu (Morgan Stair)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: 24 bit accelerator cards
- Message-ID: <MORGAN.93Jan26112511@dl5000.bc.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 16:25:11 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: daigle@apollo.HP.COM's message of 25 Jan 93 19: 54:12 GMT
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- >|> 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.
-
- >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?
-
- From what I understand the Windows problems (which I believe were
- limitted to 800x600x256) were fixed in the latest driver released.
- Try an msdos mirror sight for the new drivers. I'm sure I saw them at
- wuarchive, though they were still in the /pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS/windows
- directory.
-
- Morgan
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