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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Which video card to buy?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.045852.2784@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1992Jul30.163138.18949@ra.oc.com>
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- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 04:58:52 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul30.163138.18949@ra.oc.com> matt@ra.oc.com (Matthew Lyle) writes:
- >I've been hearing that a fair number of the SVGA + cards don't have good
- >solid drivers yet for OS/2. If one were to buy a video card today, which
- >would be the best one to buy for an OS/2 system?
-
- My current recommendation is either the ATI Graphics Vantage or
- Graphics Ultra in the one megabyte configuration. The Ultra has VRAM
- but is otherwise identical to the Vantage and, hence, is faster.
-
- I've seen the Vantage as low as $210 or so, which is not too bad.
- Both are 8514/A hardware compatible and, thus, work just fine with the
- stock 8514/A driver that comes with OS/2 2.0 for 1024x768 256 colors
- in up to 76 Hz refresh rate noninterlaced, I believe. Nice cards.
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