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- From: richk@grebyn.com (Richard Krehbiel)
- Subject: Re: Radius XGA-2 board
- In-Reply-To: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu's message of 7 Jan 93 19:23:31 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.044434.24897@grebyn.com>
- Lines: 13
- Sender: richk@grebyn.com (Richard Krehbiel)
- Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
- References: <726362760.0@iphase.infoserv.com> <1993Jan7.192331.28063@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 04:44:34 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan7.192331.28063@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
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- > In article <726362760.0@iphase.infoserv.com> Ed.June@iphase.infoserv.com (Ed June) writes:
- > >
- > >That, and an EISA version or VESA version would be nice too...
- >
- > A VESA-compliant version of the XGA board is impossible. VESA specs
- > only apply to frame-buffer based boards, not to coprocessor-based
- > ones. The VESA specs would sap the XGA of all it's performance.
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- Oh, I thought he meant a VESA VL-bus version, which would indeed be
- grand. VESA VBE should be possible for XGA, but as you say, it's not
- desirable to treat an accellerator as a dumb frame buffer.
- --
- Richard Krehbiel richk@grebyn.com
- OS/2 2.0 will do for me until AmigaDOS for the 386 comes along...
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