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- From: wijkstra@fwi.uva.nl (Marcel Wijkstra (AIO))
- Subject: Re: Which VGA?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.090644.15113@fwi.uva.nl>
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- Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
- References: <1992Aug29.023428.18801@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <1992Aug29.080946.23276@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 09:06:44 GMT
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- gsroka@leland.Stanford.EDU (Gregory Sroka) writes:
-
- #In article <1992Aug29.023428.18801@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung) writes:
- #> I am shopping for a fairy cheap (ie, affordable) VGA/SVGA card.
-
- #The extra memory is nice - but needed only if you want higher res. and more
- #colors. 512K is enough for 800x600 x16 colors, or 1024x768 x 4 colors (interlaced).
-
- No.
- A 256K SVGA card can already do this.
- A 512K can do 800x600x256 (= 468 K) and 1024x768x16 (= 384 K), both
- non-interlaced (at least, if your monitor supports it).
- A 1024K can do 1024x768x256 (= 768 K) and sometimes 1280x1024x16 (= 640 K).
-
- If you can, get a card with the Tseng Labs ET-4000 chipset. They're a bit
- less cheap than the ones with a Trident chpset, but much faster.
- Both Tseng and Trident cards are supported by almost every program
- that uses SVGA (except for OS/2, for which no ET-4000 drivers are said to
- exist yet).
-
- Marcel.
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- X Marcel Wijkstra AIO (wijkstra@fwi.uva.nl)
- |X| Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
- X University of Amsterdam The Netherlands
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