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- From: aron@luxor.ced.berkeley.edu (aron bonar)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Orchid VL bus video?
- Date: 11 Dec 1992 18:09:03 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- References: <1992Dec10.215405.16371@colorado.edu> <1992Dec11.032619.16966@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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- In article <1992Dec11.032619.16966@leland.Stanford.EDU>, stankus@leland.Stanford.EDU (John J. Stankus) writes:
- |> In article <1992Dec10.215405.16371@colorado.edu> dbeeman@dogstar.Colorado.edu (Dave Beeman) writes:
- |> >I heard that Orchid was due to release a VL bus version of their local
- |> >bus windows accelerator card in October. Can someone tell me if it is now
- |> >available and give me a few details? Other than being local bus, does it
- |> >have any advantages over the original Farenheit 1280 card. (Like higher
- |> >refresh rates at 1280x1024?) Does it use the S3 chip? What version?
- |> >Who sells it?
- |> >
- |> >Thanks - Dave Beeman - dbeeman@dogstar.colorado.edu
- |>
- |>
- |> The card is the Orchid Fahrenheit VA/VLB. It just hit the stores(well at
- |> least the first store I could find that had it in the bay area) on Tuesday
- |> of this week. This is a vesa local bus version of their ISA card. I don't
- |> remember what the refresh rate for 1280X1024 is but it supports 640x480 at
- |> 72 Hz, 800x600 at 72Hz and 1064x768 at 70 Hz (caveat all numbers are off
- |> the top of my head) It does 24 bit video. I think is uses the S3 chip but
- |> I don't remember which one
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- It uses one of the original S3 chips, not the newer ones. It looks to me
- like its the same as their Fahrenhiet 1280D (their original local bus card)
- except they added VESA support.
-
- I didn't get it cuz it won't do 32,768 colors at 800x600. This seems absurd
- to me since it does do 16.7 million colors at 640x480...
-