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- Subject: Re: Trident 8800/8900/9000 (What is what?)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.171735.1@ualr.edu>
- From: djlewis@ualr.edu
- Date: 11 Nov 92 17:17:35 GMT
- References: <1992Nov10.002217.128538@zeus.calpoly.edu> <1992Nov10.222624.28148@b30.ingr.com>
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- In article <1992Nov10.222624.28148@b30.ingr.com>, medin@catbyte.b30.ingr.com writes:
- > 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.
- >
- > --
- > --------------------------------------------------------------------
- > Dave Medin Phone: (205) 730-3169 (w)
- > Intergraph Corp. (205) 837-1174 (h)
- > M/S GD3004
- > Huntsville, AL 35894 Internet: medin@catbyte.b30.ingr.com
- > UUCP: ...uunet!ingr!b30!catbyte!medin
- >
- > ******* Everywhere You Look (at least around my office) *******
- >
- > * The opinions expressed here are mine (or those of my machine)
- My Trident 8900 has been working well for two years and runs Windows3.1
- from 640x480x16 / 604x480x256, 800x600x16 / 800x600x256 and 1024x768x16 /
- 1024x768x256 VERY well. The VESA tsr works on most VESA applications.
-
- Don
- djlewis@ualr.edu
-
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