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- From: mc@wam.umd.edu (Morgan Tay Chiu)
- Subject: Re: 24X scrolling performance
- Message-ID: <1992Aug16.012303.6374@wam.umd.edu>
- Keywords: Diamond, Speedstar, 24 bit color
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- References: <freemark.713858317@ee.ualberta.ca> <1992Aug15.170259.7233@infonode.ingr.com>
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 01:23:03 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug15.170259.7233@infonode.ingr.com> bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown) writes:
- >
- >Here are the benchmarks somebody wanted for text scrolling on
- >the diamond 24X.
- >
- >
- >Board 24X Tseng4K ATI Vantage Stealth
- >Computer 386/33 386/33 486/33 486/33
- >Driver Winspeed
- >
- >Scroll System Font
- >[1024x768x256] 12677 6513 24084 46933
- >[1024x768x16] 32032
- >[800x600x16] 61233 79833
- >
- >Image Text System Font
- >[1024x768x256] 7183 7147 19711 47457
- >[1024x768x16] 21300
- >[800x600x16] 40766
- >
- >As you can see, the 24X does not scroll or do text as well as the
- >Stealth, however, in the 16 color modes, it does almost as well.
- >It does everything else (in both 256 and 16 color modes) except diagonal
- >lines as well or better. Diamond is claiming that overall, the
- >24X is faster on Winbench.
- >
- >------------
- >Bailey Brown "Above all else, confusion reigns."
- >Intergraph Corporation
- >bbrown@casca.b11.ingr.com Procol Harum
-
-
- But in the benchmark, 24X was installed in a 386-33 while Stealth was installed
- in a 486-33. You have to realize that a 486-33 is a much faster computer than
- a 386-33. I believe the 486-33 has aided the Stealth a great deal.
-
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- MC
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