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- From: bwebster@pages.com (Bruce F. Webster)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Direct Memory Mapped displays for NeXT 486 (besides Dell JAWS)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.210105.3224@pages.com>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 21:01:05 GMT
- References: <1992Jul23.014214.14059@sfc.sony.com>
- Sender: bwebster@pages.com
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- Organization: Banzai Research Institute
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- In article <1992Jul23.014214.14059@sfc.sony.com> berger@sfc.sony.com (Bob
- Berger) writes:
- > Allegedly NeXT 486 will work with VGA and Super VGA only in 2bit Greyscale.
- > To do color and to be highest performance, one will need a Direct Memory
- Mapped
- > display buffer with an appropriate color lookup table architecture (4/8 bits
- > Red, 4/8 bits green, 4/8 bits blue, not the PC tradition of asymetrical RGB).
- >
- > 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?
- >
-
- At the Publishing Developers Workshop last month, NeXT mentioned the Q-Vision
- system (from Compaq) and even Chip-and-Technology's Wingine as potentially
- compatible video systems. I don't actually know of anything outside of JAWS
- which is currently available, though. ..bruce..
-
- Bruce F. Webster
- Director, BRI
- bwebster@pages.com
- #import <pages/disclaimer.h>
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