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- Subject: Re: S3 drivers...
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- From: hamish@terra.cs.waikato.ac.nz (Hamish Marson)
- Date: 11 Jan 1993 13:53:39 +1300
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- In article <1993Jan9.184843.15043@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- |In article <2b4dfd5c@f514.n202.z1.fidonet.org> George_Marengo@f514.n202.z1.fidonet.org writes:
- |> I've read a rumour that S3 Corp. has finished their OS/2 drivers and
- |>have sent them to board mfrs. Anyone out there heard any news from a
- |>board
- |>mfr?
- |
- |This rumor is apparently true.
- |
- |Orchid has released drivers for their Farenheit 1280 S3-based adapter.
- |The drivers support 800x600 and 1024x768 modes.
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- The rumour maybe true, but I don't think the orchid drivers are based on any
- code S3 wrote for OS/2. They are 16-bit, and I think are just updated OS/2 1.x
- drivers.
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- PS> The drivers work fine except for the piss poor font rendering.
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- |--
- |Timothy F. Sipples | Read the OS/2 FAQ List 2.0i, available from
- |sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all/info
- |Dept. of Econ., Univ. | /faq, or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP")
- |of Chicago, 60637 | [Read the List, THEN post to ONE OS/2 newsgroup.]
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