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- From: slug@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Glen Anthony Graham)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: ATI Graphics Ultra Pro & Graphics Ultra +
- Message-ID: <78788@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 21:09:14 GMT
- References: <1992Aug24.012656.1730@sdf.lonestar.org> <1992Aug28.093512.21136@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
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- Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
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- In article <1992Aug28.093512.21136@klaava.Helsinki.FI> tmottone@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Teemu Mottonen) writes:
- >I called a local ATI dealer and got this info on the new ATI boards.
- >
- >Graphics Ultra Pro:
- > 1280x1024x256
- > 800x600x16.7M
- > Available for ISA, EISA and MCA.
- > Winmark 25.5M
- >
- >Graphics Ultra Plus:
- > same resolutions as the Pro
- > only for ISA
- > Winmark 21M
- >
- >I don't know about the color depth at 1024x768, maybe 8 or 15 bits ?
- >He also said that there would be a Graphics Vantage Plus, but I'm really
- >not sure about that. Also, I don't know how much RAM is standard and how
- >expandable it is. Also, are these already on the market in US ? The dealer
- >expects these boards in two months.
-
- Man, you are fortunate. I called ATI themselves and the loser I talked to could
- give me *NO* information about the cards. From the picture of them in Computer
- Shopper, they look like Local Bus cards, and the article in Comp. Shopper said
- that ATI got around the bottleneck by using 32-bits. But the Techie at ATI
- basically said that he had no idea when they would be released, what bus types
- it would support, or anything.
-
- Are these beasties still going to be register-compatible with the 8514? I am
- extremely interested in this card since I have used the Graphics Ultra and
- really liked it, but I am delaying purchasing a computer just so I can use the
- new ATI cards.
-
- If anyone has any further information about them, could you please e-mail me
- (if it has already been posted- I just opened my account today and our archives
- do not go back to the start of this thread :-( )
-
- Many thanks,
- Glen Graham
- slug@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
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