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- From: gilem@aix02.ecs.rpi.edu (Michael R. Gile)
- Subject: 3 unrelated ques
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- Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 22:50:37 GMT
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- Three unrelated questions:
-
- 1) Has anyone had any experience with Hitatchi monitors or
- mitsumi CD rom drives? I have an opporunity to get my hands on
- a smokin' 486, and these are in the package. My only problem is
- that this 20" monitor has a .31 dot pitch
-
- 2) Local bus: OK, who is the wise guy. Micronics and Zeos
- say there is a VESA standard, and they are following it. Intel
- says that there currently is no standard, and that there won't
- be until Jan. 93. Many companies are complaining that there
- is no standard, and since they were 1st to use local bus technology
- (i.e. - gigabyte), doesn't that make it seem a bit strange that
- some claim it exists already?
-
- 3) Another problem here: local bus boosts the speed of the
- bus from say 8MHz to 33MHz (about 4X)... are there any graphics
- chips that are ready to handle this speed increase -- I don't
- think so! Not yet anyway. As an example, look at the recent
- diamond ss24x which is a technological step back using DRAM!
- If we haven't yet exausted the usefulness of the ISA bus, and
- definitely not the bus mastering of EISA, why do we need this
- local bus confusion?
-
- I have really had it with this local bus stuff!!!!
- Does anyone have any answers!
- I will definitely post the good ones.
-
- Mike G
- gilem@rpi.edu
-