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- CONFIGURING YOUR SYSTEM
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- The system is supplied (almost) ready to run on an EGA display on a basic
- PC system.
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- You can improve performance drastically if you have better hardware:
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- Various parameter files have to be set up correctly before the system can be
- used as OzGIS supports a range of video boards. This should be quite straight
- forward for standard EGA and VGA boards, but as there are no standards for
- super VGA boards the procedure gets involved.
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- The configuration is worth spending the time on as it is very important to
- display maps as fast as possible and to use the highest display resolution
- possible. If you plan to do a lot of mapping it is worth purchasing the
- hardware (its optional).
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- Resolution is provided by using Super VGA boards.
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- Speed is provided by:
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- . Super VGA boards with 256 colours (512K or 1 Mbyte RAM on the board)
- . Using an extra 1MByte of RAM as a RAM disk.
- . Math coprocessor
- . Faster processor
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- The other hardware worth having is a mouse. While the arrows on the keyboard
- can be used, they are slow.
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- Refer to the manual.................
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