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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
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- From: kaul@bcrvm1.vnet.ibm.com
- Subject: Re: New IBM PS/Valuepoint
- Sender: @watson.ibm.com
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.001607.5678@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 00:16:07 GMT
- News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.15 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
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- Reply-To: kaul@bcrvm1.vnet.ibm.com
- References: <sheldon.721786216@pv141b.vincent.iastate.edu> <1e8dsuINNiq0@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <sheldon.721932183@pv1417.vincent.iastate.edu>
- Organization: IBM T. J. Watson Research
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- In <sheldon.721932183@pv1417.vincent.iastate.edu> sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon) writes:
- >In <1e8dsuINNiq0@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell) writes:
- >>>The ps/value point computers use a tseng 4000 chipset.
- >>This explains why IBM wrote os/2 2.0 drivers for the tseng chipset.
- > According to the November 1992 issue of Byte which I just bought, at least
- >the PS/Valuepoint 386SLC model uses a Cirrus 5422 chip for the video.
- >This same chip is used by AST and Digital for their low priced models.
-
- The scoop:
- 386SLC based models: Cirrus chip and Windows/DOS installed.
- 486 based models: Tseng ET4000 and OS/2 installed.
-
- Is it any wonder that there is Tseng SVGA seamless windows support in
- OS/2? It's not nearly as nice as the XGA support, though :-)
-
- > ... OS/2 does not come with the 386 model, only
- >the 486 model.(because of RAM, not processor speed).
-
- Correct, I think. OS/2 is sufficiently fast even on a 25MHz 386, but you
- do need a fair bit of memory, more than the base, I think. Of course,
- I'm just an OS/2 user, not one of the OS/2 developers, nor a part of the
- PC company, so I have no idea as to the reason.
-
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