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- From: nma95nbr@lustudat.student.lu.se (Niklas Brunlid)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 3 NEW Qs: SVGA & A1200, VM, boot off Zip
- Date: 19 Feb 1996 21:42:48 GMT
- Organization: Lund University
- Message-ID: <1762.6623T1345T2655@lustudat.student.lu.se>
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- In article "3 NEW Qs: SVGA & A1200, VM, boot off Zip" Nhan Nguyen said:
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- >OK, can someone be *very* specific about which video modes can and cannot
- >be displayed on a typical SVGA monitor from an A1200?
-
- >Here's the scenario: my fiancee is interested in an A1200 and already has
- >a brand-new Packard Bell SVGA monitor which she bought for her old, OLD
- >PC. Which modes will be visible on this monitor? Or is multisync really
- >the only way to go?
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- >She won't be doing any video work any time soon, just word processing and
- >tooling around in a paint program. Oh yeah, and surfing the Net.
-
- >Now this next question has nothing to do with monitors. Is there *any*
- >way to use virtual memory on an A1200, aside from plugging in a full
- >68030 board in the trapdoor? She has a Zip drive and would like to use
- >some of its space for VM.
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- >And finally, can she buy an A1200 with no HD and just boot off of the Zip
- >(assuming she gets a SCSI controller)? That would be perfect.
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- > ---------Nhan Nguyen---------
- > Junior, U of H RTV Department
- > -Black Acura NSX = Happiness-
- > -----------------------------
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- VMM requires and MMU, as far as I know. But then again, VMM crashes everytime
- I try to start it...
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- <tsb> F I S H E R M A N
- - Amiga since '89
- A1200 - Blizzard 1230IV/50/8Mb - 850Mb HD - Microvitec 1438
- Commodore :( PC20-III PSU ;) + Stereo, floppy, mouse, blahblah...
- Texas Instruments TI-85 & TI-92 graphing calculators
- nma95nbr@lustudat.student.lu.se
- <tsb> Random tag line coming up...
-
- The thing about iron is that you generally don't have to think fast in
- dealing with it.
- -- (Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies)
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