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- From: price@helios.unl.edu (Chad Price)
- Subject: Re: In defense of lowly Z-449
- Message-ID: <price.712436744@helios>
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- References: <92210.234031RFM@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 19:05:44 GMT
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- <RFM@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
-
- >I admit that Z449 maybe ain't the greatest video card in the world,
- >but I've been running a 1390 and Z449 combo most every day for almost
- >3 years now, and they both keep chuggin' along. 'Course, every now and
- >then when I boot up (or more likely, reboot), the thing seems to lose
- >or maybe gain pixels; I'll get umlat-like marks above "m"s and "r"s and
- >other weird things. Half-dots on top of lower-case i's. But what the
- >heck: variety is the spice of life, etc. As long as the system doesn't
- >smoke or flame, I'll keep using.
-
- All very nice, but if you want (or have to ) run Microsoft C 6.0, the video
- mode does not come up correctly some of the time when you reboot.
-
- Also, OS/2 1.3 and 2.0 cannot deal with the 449: the screen immediately becomes
- unreadable when booting.
-
- ie: The card is so incompatible with the VGA standard, I cannot recommend that
- anyone use it if they have a choice.
-
- --
- chad
- price@helios.unl.edu
- cprice@molecular.unmc.edu
-