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  2. From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
  4. Subject: Re: Radius XGA-2 board
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan8.163345.26021@njitgw.njit.edu>
  6. Date: 8 Jan 93 16:33:45 GMT
  7. References: <726362760.0@iphase.infoserv.com> <1993Jan7.192331.28063@njitgw.njit.edu> <1993Jan8.062822.3642@netcom.com>
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  13. In article <1993Jan8.062822.3642@netcom.com> samiam@netcom.com (Scott Moore) writes:
  14. >dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
  15. >>A VESA-compliant version of the XGA board is impossible.  VESA specs
  16. >>only apply to frame-buffer based boards, not to coprocessor-based
  17. >>ones.  The VESA specs would sap the XGA of all it's performance.
  18. >
  19. >I beleive he was referring to the VESA local bus standard, which is certainly
  20. >possible and would be quite fast.
  21.  
  22. My mistake.  I was unaware that VESA also had a bust standard.  I
  23. thought it was just a software spec.
  24. -- 
  25.   |)  David Charlap          | .signature confiscated by FBI due to
  26.  /|_  dic5340@hertz.njit.edu | an ongoing investigation into the
  27. ((|,)                        | source of these .signature virusses
  28.  ~|~
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