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- From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Phone numbers needed and INFO about ATI boards.
- Date: 7 Nov 1992 16:35:06 GMT
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- References: <1992Nov6.183410.8577@utdallas.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov6.183410.8577@utdallas.edu> ramesh@utdallas.edu writes:
- >
- >BTW, all those who read my earlier message about "ATI Graphics ultra cannot do
- >1152x900" I have news. I talked to folks in ATI and they say you can if you
- >program Mach 8 directly.
-
- Yes, but it will run like a dog.
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- 1152x900x256 takes up nearly all the on-chip VRAM; there will not be enough
- left to cache fonts. If you've ever seen an accelerated server without font
- caching, you know what this means.
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- If the resolutions are flexible and you didn't use too many fonts,
- something like 1152x870 would work.
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- >Documents about mach 8 is freely available for $50.
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- This is a recent development, and good news.
-
- c
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