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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: 24-bit color board for OS/2 2.0 ?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.172348.6049@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 17:23:48 GMT
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- In article <cezSyLa00iV0Q4lIk=@andrew.cmu.edu> sl31+@andrew.cmu.edu (Stephen M. Lacy) writes:
- >> Can anyone recommend me a 24-bit color board for OS/2 2.0? Do such things
- >> even exist at this point?
- >> If they don't, anyone know when they will? Or when manufacturers of existing
- >> boards will write OS/2 2.0 drivers?
- >> Cost estimates would be nice; I'm expecting multiple $1000's for EISA or
- >> MCA boards with TIGA chips, etc.
- >For $270 (education price) you can get an XGA-2 board with 1 meg of VRAM
- >that will do 640x480x65,536. Its not 24-bit, but its damn well near it.
- >With 65,536 colors you can get one color per five pixels, hopefully you
- >don't really need more colors than that! (well, at least for the price,
- >its a real bargain) :)
- >Its for MCA only (right now) and is made by IBM. (BTW, I just bought one)
-
- And Radius will be coming out with an AT bus version, at a similar
- price, in the very near future. (Outside the U.S. IBM sells the AT
- bus XGA-2 card.)
-
- I would also check with NEC, DEC, and Matrox to see what they have to
- offer. I've heard rumblings from all three about HiColor and/or
- TrueColor OS/2 compatible adapters. And, if Microchannel is OK, check
- with IBM on their Image Adapter/A.
-
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