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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: 800x600x256 on 512K SVGA? (was Re: OS800.DLL for OS/2 1.1)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.195723.11338@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <lestrade.726259107@Ra.MsState.Edu> <1993Jan6.050316.20286@midway.uchicago.edu> <8357@lib.tmc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:57:23 GMT
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- In article <8357@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
- >>Not likely. However, if you have 512K on the adapter, you can get
- >>640x480-256 and 800x600-256 with the new OS/2 2.1 beta (or with the
- >>leaked generic SuperVGA driver, available via anonymous ftp from
- >>ftp-os2.nmsu.edu). If you have 1 MB, you can also get 1024x768-256.
- >Waitaminute. I thought all the 800x600x256 drivers out there took 1 meg,
- >including this one. Did they finally get it to run in 512K on a Trident 9000?
-
- Trident is the one exception -- it doesn't do 800x600-256 very
- effectively without 1 MB.
-
- Now, what does the "very effectively" mean? It means, "In anything
- resembling decent performance."
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