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- From: duffy@theory.chem.ubc.ca (Pat Duffy)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.graphics
- Subject: Re: 24-bit color board for OS/2 2.0 ?
- Date: 10 Nov 1992 16:19:07 GMT
- Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- In article <BxI8vt.450@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
- >In article <cezSyLa00iV0Q4lIk=@andrew.cmu.edu> sl31+@andrew.cmu.edu (Stephen M. Lacy) writes:
- >
- >
- >>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)
- >
- >If its by IBM it'll only support the 8515 monitor which
- >means interlaced at 1024x768, and it won't do 800x600.
- >
- >640x480?
- >
- >Thptptptptpt!!!!
-
- The XGA-2 standard (from what I have read) supports all the following:
-
- All VGA modes.
- 640x480x(256 and 64k)
- 800x600x(256 and 64k)
- 1024x768x256 (it comes with 1MB)
- up to 75Hz N/I (yes, that's NON-interlaced)
-
- It is full extensible, vesa-compliant, busmastering video, and it's coming
- soon from Radius for the ISA bus.
-
- I want one.
- --
- Patrick Duffy, duffy@theory.chem.ubc.ca
-
- "Commander, these cubes are improperly balanced."
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