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- From: medin@catbyte.b30.ingr.com
- Subject: Re: Trident 8800/8900/9000 (What is what?)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.222624.28148@b30.ingr.com>
- Sender: medin@catbyte (Dave Medin)
- Reply-To: medin@catbyte.b30.ingr.com
- Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville AL
- References: <1992Nov10.002217.128538@zeus.calpoly.edu>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:26:24 GMT
- Lines: 40
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- In article <1992Nov10.002217.128538@zeus.calpoly.edu>, rrauenza@zeus.calpoly.edu (Who, Me??) writes:
-
- |> I have done a little shopping and it appears that the 8900 is the
- |> newest model that supports 1 meg (1024x768x256). The one place
- |> I have actually called was actually selling the *8800* and said they
- |> wouldn't have 8900's until next week (which I thought was odd...
- |> hasn't the 8900 been out for a while?).
-
- I've had two 8900C 1 meg cards in the last two years, so they've been
- out at least that long. Make sure you get the "C" rev., as it is
- supposedly faster (don't know why but I take Trident's word for it).
-
- |> Should I just skip trident and go with ATI or some other well
- |> supported card? I have noticed that Trident's windows 3.1
- |> driver is a little buggy (and it's supposed to be the 'final'
- |> release - I got it from wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/msdos/windows3).
-
- I liked my Trident cards for what they were built for--unaccelerated
- SVGA.
-
- You might try the Trident BBS at:
-
- 415-691-1016
-
- for updated drivers if they exist. My 8900C worked fine with Windows
- 3.1 in 800 X 600 until I sold it two weeks ago in favor of an accelerated
- card. I've seen another advertised in misc.forsale.computers today
- for $75 used. I sold mine for around $50 which I thought was reasonable.
-
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