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- From: hook@eagle.geog.ubc.ca (Chris Hook)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: [IBM] XGA-2 Specs.
- Date: 13 Nov 1992 16:12:55 GMT
- Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Lines: 31
- Sender: hook@eagle (Chris Hook)
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- Message-ID: <1e0k67INNrj8@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>
- References: <1992Nov11.082729.15062@hippo.ru.ac.za> <1992Nov12.231856.19708@watson.ibm.com>
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- In article <1992Nov12.231856.19708@watson.ibm.com>, kaul@bcrvm1.vnet.ibm.com writes:
- |> In <1992Nov11.082729.15062@hippo.ru.ac.za> apj@beldin.sun.ac.za (Andries Dippenaar) writes:
- |>
- |> The "official" specs are"
- |> Max video PEL rate: 90MHz
- |> Max screen resolution: 1280x1024
- |> Max palette colors: 16.7 million (at 1024x768 - 256 colors simultaneously)
- |> Max palette greys: 256
- |> Max direct colors: 65,536 -- at 640x480 (at up to 75Hz refresh)
- |> -- at 800x600 (at up to 60Hz refresh)
- |> Video Memory: 1 MB VRAM (which is why you only get 256
- |> colors at 1024x768)
- |> Adapter Type: 16/32-bit bus master
- |>
- |> The educational price is $270 and I think list is $360, but I won't
-
- I sure hope other manufacturers get in on the XGA-2, as, with specs like
- those listed above on an industry standard - co-processed - display
- adapter, the potential to write VERY realistic games and animation
- programs becomes a reality for us programmers.
-
- If the price drives low enough perhaps XGA-2 can replace VGA and finally
- the marketing prospects becomes bright enough for wise spread, low cost,
- industry standard graphics. Being limited to a lowest common denominator of
- 256 color 320x200 graphics mode for animation will be gone. Look
- out for some pretty fantastic flight simulators!
-
-
- Chris Hook
- hook@geog.ubc.ca
-
-