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- From: stankus@leland.Stanford.EDU (John J. Stankus)
- Subject: Re: Orchid VL bus video?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.103333.11092@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (USENET News System)
- Organization: Department of Chemistry, Stanford University
- References: <1galfvINNgc5@agate.berkeley.edu> <kssNVB3w165w@hale.cts.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 10:33:33 GMT
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- In article <kssNVB3w165w@hale.cts.com> god@hale.cts.com (David J. Calabrese) writes:
- >aron@luxor.ced.berkeley.edu (aron bonar) writes:
- >
- >>
- >>
- >> 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...
-
- We according to the manual for the Fahrenheit VA/VLB it supports:
- 640 x 480 x 16.8 Million colors
- 800 x 600 x 64K colors *********
- 1024 x 768 x 256 colors
- 1280 x 1024 x 256 colors -Interlaced (with 2MB DRAM)
- from Orchid Fahrenheit VA/VLB manual (c 1992 Orchid tech) p. 43
- >
- >Say, what is the list price on this VL card?
- >Just wondering...
- >
- >* david j. calabrese *
- >
- The Orchid Fahrenheit VA/VLB is $225 @Central Computers in Santa Clara, CA
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- John J. Stankus Chemistry Department
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