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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: 24-bit color board for OS/2 2.0 ?
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- In article <cezSyLa00iV0Q4lIk=@andrew.cmu.edu> sl31+@andrew.cmu.edu (Stephen M. Lacy) writes:
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- >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)
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- If its by IBM it'll only support the 8515 monitor which
- means interlaced at 1024x768, and it won't do 800x600.
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- 640x480?
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- Thptptptptpt!!!!
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