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- From: bo@horus.cem.msu.EDU (Bo Peng)
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- Subject: Survey call on graphics accelarators
- Message-ID: <1h0kh8INNh6i@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
- Date: 20 Dec 92 02:07:36 GMT
- Organization: Michigan State University
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- Hi everyone,
- I'd like to conduct a survey on usenet about end-users' evaluation of various
- windows graphics accelaration cards. Please consider including the following
- inofrmation in your reply via private e-mail to me:
-
- 1. Card brand + model name/number. Price you paid if purchased within the past
- three months (in my judgement, the change in pricing is too fast for the info
- past three-month old to be meaningful). (ATI Graphics Ultra, etc, etc)
- 2. Processor type. (S3, TI48020, etc)
- 3. The primary resolution you use with it. (800x600x93847292347458color, etc)
- 4. The primary type of work you do with windows. (Word processing, CAD, etc)
- 5. Of course, your opinion. (Brief or verbose, acclaimation or cursing)
-
- I'll summarize replies to the same groups in usenet within a month, or couple of
- weeks, depending on the amout of reply/my schedule.
-
- For the inquiring minds: I'm doing this because 1) I'm thinking of getting one
- myself 2) The market is very confusing 3) Such a survey could of some value
- to the general window-user community 4) It might even be fun to run such a
- survey.
-
- For the caring minds: My machines is a 386sx 16MHz/Interlaced SVGA monitor.
- Yeah, I know. I'm reasonalby sure that the TVGA 8900a/1Mb SVGA card is one of
- the bottlenecks (if not the most limiting) when running in 800x600x256colors
- mode, which is the primary mode I'd like to run. But I don't know what kind of
- acceleration cards can match such a platform, yet without being a overkill.
- It may sounds like asking for too much. But I'd really appreciate whatever
- suggestion/advice you care to make.
-
- For benchmark programmers: Why are you guys still so focused on calculating
- bps about bit-blitting/linedrawing/polyfilling/etc/etc while it doesn't mean a
- thing to anyone except cs professors researching in computer graphics? Worse
- yet, the correlation between these numbers and real-world performance is very
- complicated, if not ill-defined. Pleeeeez, give us something that makes sense!
- IMO. wintach from Texas Instrument serves a good purpose for laymen, despite
- the fact that it quietly promotes their own chips.
-
- Bo Peng
- Signiture? See above.
-