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- From: soward@slow.inslab.uky.edu (John Soward)
- Subject: Re: Some NS486 and DPS Questions
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:57:59 GMT
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- Michael McCulloch writes
- -> Get ready. This is probably only one of a long string of questions
- -> that'll flood these newsgroups soon. :-)
- ->
- -> NeXT's official info on NS486 says that it'll be capable of 1280x1024
- -> 16-bit DPS on cards with ATI Mach 32 and Wingine chipsets. However,
- -> many of the machines are only advertised to be capable of 1024x768 at
- -> 256 colors for Windoze. Can the same video card provide the much
- -> better DPS performance? Is additional video RAM required? If so, how
- -> much?
- ->
- First off, I don't *know* anything -- about NS486, or anything much for
- that matter....but it seems to me (BISTM) that the card *must* have >2M since
- 1024*1280*2 = 2,621,440 bytes (2.560M)...as far as the supposed resolution
- enhancement goes...most graphics chips for PCs will support 1280x1024, but this
- would seem to require more than 1M of ram at 8bits/pixels...so they use
- 1024x768...similarly a lot of monitors can't quite acheive 1280x1024...
- but remember that the NeXT screen (on a real NeXT) is like 11??x8?? so as long
- as you can get at least that -- of course I'd prefer something like
- 1200x1600...;-)
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