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- From: adhir@wam.umd.edu (Al Dhir)
- Subject: Re: 24-bit color board for OS/2 2.0 ?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.013046.1821@wam.umd.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 01:30:46 GMT
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- In article <1dondrINNe8s@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> duffy@theory.chem.ubc.ca (Pat Duffy) writes:
- >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)
-
- Question, is anyone planning an EISA version of the XGA-2 card, and if so,
- when?
-
- In any case, here's an interesting question, how much difference could it
- possibly make between ISA and EISA? From what I understand, XGA-2 is co-
- processed anyway, so the only time you'll see a big difference in speed is
- when you move a large bitmap from memory to the screen. All drawing should
- probably be about the same speed, no?
-
- (Let's not start another local bus vs eisa discussion, please, so if you
- are about to say something about it, don't).
-