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- From: hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: OS2+VIO windows=110baud
- Message-ID: <hatton.721516629@cgl.ucsf.edu>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 21:17:09 GMT
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- shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr) writes:
- >IBM didn't write these drivers to provide speed, they wrote them to
- >work. They've also written them for generality (to various ET4000-
- >based SVGA implementations). I heard in this forum that these drivers
- >are to be provided to 3rd party vendors as models of how to write
- >video drivers for OS/2.
-
- >Diamond's (Binar-written, WinSpeed-based, Diamond-modified) Turbo
- >Windows Drivers for the SpeedStar provide an astonishing performance
- >improvement over the standard Tseng drivers for Windows. If Diamond
- >applies the same lessons to the box-stock ET4000 drivers for OS/2,
- >SpeedStar users, at least, can look forward to better performance...
- >eventually.
-
- >When I can afford to throw horsepower at it, I will. Still, I want
- >and expect fast drivers to use with my increased horsepower, as well.
- >Since Binar and Diamond have shown us something of what is possible
- >with SVGA in general and SpeedStar in particular, I have some idea
- >what is possible and how much we can expect. Time will tell, though,
- >and we're going to have to let it do exactly that.
-
- I notice that Diamond seems to be feeling the waters about OS/2 - they
- have a poll/questionnaire on their BBS about OS/2. It might help to
- speed up Speedstar drivers if people convince them the demand is there.
- The numbers are 1-408-730-1100 and 1-408-524-9335. Make some noise.
-
- Tom
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