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From: tyager@maxx.UUCP (Tom Yager)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Which 386 Unix offers Vga 256 color X-windows?
Summary: None (yet)
Keywords: 640 x 480 x 256, 800 x 600 x 256 ?
Message-ID: <16@maxx.UUCP>
Date: 26 Nov 89 15:57:25 GMT
References: <938@nemesis.stsci.edu>
Distribution: usa
Organization: MAXX Public Access Unix, Westborough, Mass.
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In article <938@nemesis.stsci.edu>, krist@stsci.EDU (John Krist) writes:
> 
>   Greetings :
> 
>     I'm contemplating putting Unix on my 386 (Arche Rival).  Reading
>   the recent SCO Unix vs 386/ix review in Unix World (or was that 
>   Unix review?), they author indicated that neither vendor offers an 
>   X-windows which supports 256 colors in the high res VGA and Super-
>   VGA modes.
> 
I hope you're talking about the UNIX Review article. If so, I was the author.

If anybody does it at all, I'd expect ISC to be first. They've got some real
heavyweights in-house doing their VGA support, and between my article and
subsequent consumer response, some pressure has been brought to bear on ISC
to do a 256-color VGA server. This may take some time, and (as a previous
posting mentions), this may all be moot once prices start to come down on
8514/A-compatible intelligent cards.

My advice: Don't hold your breath, and, once you get it, don't expect too
much. It will be DOG slow.
(ty)




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