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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: VGA on XT
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- References: <8760@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> <1992Dec5.032120.16230@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Dec6.183016.21562@cs.odu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:52:49 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec6.183016.21562@cs.odu.edu> thurs_j@fog.cs.odu.edu (Jason Thurston) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec5.032120.16230@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> dcable@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dan Cable) writes:
- >>deng@wright.seas.ucla.edu (Christopher H. Deng) writes:
- >>>use VGA on XT. I mean if I got a 8-bit VGA card, will that
- >>>work. How would I set my DIP switches? The DIP only goes up
- > (text edited for brevity)
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- >>Yes you can. The dip switches need only be set for EGA and the VGA board
- >>will work fine. Good luck finding an 8 bit VGA card.
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- >I know a Tseng ET-4000 worked nicely when I had it in my old XT
- >(Leading Edge-Model D). Granted, it is SVGA, and maybe a bit expensive
- >for some, but it will work.
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- Theres all kinds of cheap VGA cards out there now. The Oak ones
- go for about $50 or so.
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