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- From: nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
- Subject: Re: Direct Memory Mapped displays for NeXT 486 (besides Dell JAWS)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.165252.14848@cs.yale.edu>
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- Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT
- References: <1992Jul23.150932.1959@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 16:52:52 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul23.150932.1959@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
- adrian@niagara.ucs.ualberta.ca (Adrian Smith) writes:
- > In article <1992Jul23.014214.14059@sfc.sony.com> berger@sfc.sony.com (Bob
- > Berger) writes:
- > > The only one we have found so far is the Dell JAWS, does anyone know of
- > other
- > > motherboard, VESA or EISA board display implementations that meet these
- > > requirements?
- >
- > According to the release anouncements about NS486, the only colour spec
- > the Intel port will support is JAWS. You *must* have video RAM on the
- > system bus in order to run the colour OS. Nothing else is fast enough...
-
- That would seem to contradict previous information from NeXT
- that described EISA color as the "mid-performance" option.
-
- --
- Nathan Janette "I'm a NeXTstep man,
- Dept MB&B, Yale Univ I'm a NeXTcube guy"
- New Haven, CT
- nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (NeXT)
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