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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!boulder!dogstar!dbeeman
- From: dbeeman@dogstar.Colorado.edu (Dave Beeman)
- Subject: Re: Diamond Speedstar 24X: Is it edible or poison?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.172631.16235@colorado.edu>
- Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: dogstar.colorado.edu
- Reply-To: dbeeman@dogstar.colorado.edu
- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
- References: <csjohn.728234175@watson.mtsu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 17:26:31 GMT
- Lines: 14
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- In article <csjohn.728234175@watson.mtsu.edu>, csjohn@watson.mtsu.edu (John Wallace) writes:
- |> What do you think of the Diamond Speedstar 24X?
- |> Is it a good card for DOS, Windows, OS/2, and/or Unix?
- |>
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- If you plan to use Linux or 386BSD with Xfree386 (the free X-windows
- package) you will have a hard time getting drivers for any Diamond products,
- as they use proprietary code which isn't available to the developers of
- Xfree386. You will get better performance at a comparable price from one of
- the cards based on the new S3 86c801 chip, like the Actix GraphicsEngine
- 32. My Actix card is blazingly fast with Windows and DOS and the benchmarks
- I've seen for unix/X are comparable to a SUN Sparc II.
-
- Dave Beeman
-