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- From: pdc@lunch.wpd.sgi.com (Paul Close)
- Subject: Re: SpeedSTAR 24X performance?
- Message-ID: <op9g8o8@fido.asd.sgi.com>
- Originator: pdc@lunch.wpd.sgi.com
- Sender: news@fido.asd.sgi.com (Usenet News Admin)
- Reply-To: pdc@sgi.com (Paul Close)
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
- References: <l8vouqINN538@roundup.crhc.uiuc.edu> <1992Aug18.125250.26562@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <oo96qi8@fido.asd.sgi.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 17:32:00 GMT
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- Paul Close (pdc@sgi.com) writes:
- >david.e.wexelblat (dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com) writes:
- >>
- >>My advise to you is to trade in your SpeedStar 24 on an Orchid ProDesigner
- >>IIs. I can't give any time tables on when X386 1.2E will support the
- >>24 and 24X, because we have not yet been able to obtain the information
- >>we need from Diamond.
- >
- >The SpeedSTAR 24 and Orchid ProDesigner IIs both use the Tseng ET4000 chip.
- >Trading one in for the other is silly.
-
- Open foot, insert mouth. I didn't read the second paragraph about the
- frequency selection mechanism for the 24 being the same as the 24X. This
- means that people who want to use X386 should indeed heed David's advice.
-
- I had just read one two many posts asking about what chipset the Stealth,
- 24, 24X, etc. use, and a genuine, technically correct posting threw me :-)
-
- So, let me amend my statement to simply say that for DOS, Windows, and OS/2
- users, the SpeedSTAR 24 is the same as the Orchid ProDesigner IIs (except
- maybe a little better :-)
- --
- Paul Close pdc@sgi.com ...!{ames, decwrl, uunet}!sgi!pdc
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- No fate but that we make
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