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- From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
- Subject: Re: NT vs. UNIX
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
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- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 16:07:59 GMT
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- In <YeNlkQ600Uh7E4fGcm@andrew.cmu.edu> Sean McLinden <sean+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
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- >>>The biggest criticism of Microsoft WindowsTM (I certainly wish that they
- >>>had not been allowed to call the software simply "Windows") is that it
- >>>provides justification, in fact market demand, for systems which utilize
- >>>VGA graphics.
- >>
- >>Who said you have to use VGA? Windows ships with drivers for 8514/A
- >>(made by ATI, Western Digital, and IBM) and XGA, and the S3-based boards
- >>(from Diamond, STB, etc) and TIGA-based (NEC, Hercules, etc) boards come with
- >>windows drivers.
-
- >I have two of the above architectures and I don't find the 1024x768 mode
- >on either to be particularly attractive compared to a true X terminal or
- >workstation. 800x600 mode is a joke. Localbus video may make things faster,
- >but a faster VW bug is still a bug.
-
- On the contrary, I run an ATI 8514/Ultra in my machine, and the
- performance is nothing short of extrordinary--video is _extremely_ fast.
- Your proverbial bug, I think, is not in the hardware, it's the software.
- (Though I'd trade my hardware for a true RISC workstation any day ;)
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- Michael L. VanLoon "Ignorance is bliss..."
- michaelv@iastate.edu -- Computer Engineering, Iowa State University
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