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- From: rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Richard Warner)
- Subject: Re: S3 Drivers - A Question
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.172010.23592@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu>
- Organization: San Jose State University - Math/CS Dept.
- References: <92232.130045FDBAQ03@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 17:20:10 GMT
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- FDBAQ03@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be (Wim Van Holder) writes:
-
- >Having bought my S3 card in late May, I'm still waiting for the announcement
- >of OS/2 2.0 drivers for my Orchid F1280. And I'm not the only one |
-
- >Now, before I start thinking of getting rid of my Orchid and buying an ATI
- >Graphics Ultra, I would like to know if the Orchid will provide the same
- >accelleration facilities to OS/2 as it does to Windows, once the drivers
- >will be there (in September as I read recently) ? Forgive me if this is
- >obvious, I'm not an expert on this. This reason why I'm in doubt is that in
- >a recent posting of someone who contacted Orchid, they said the Fahrenheit
- >was designed to speed up Windows and wondered why one would buy it with
- >the intention to run OS/2. In another posting it was suggested that Orchid
- >was awaiting the release of the 32 bit engine.
-
- >Wim Van Holder,
- >Systems Engineer at K.U. Leuven - Dept. TEW.
-
- This question would best be answered by Orchid. But, there is no
- reason that the F1280 cannot offer the same kind of performance
- enhancements under WPS and WinOS2 that it does under Windows. The
- S3 chip accelerates certain graphic operations. These operations
- are the same for WPS as for Windows. You have really asked two
- questions - can it accelerate OS/2 (WPS and WinOS2) and will it
- accelerate OS/2. The answer to the first is yes. I'll leave the
- second to Orchid.
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