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From: oppenhei@umd5.umd.edu (Richard Oppenheimer)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: MS-WINDOWS IN 1024x768 RESOLUTION
Message-ID: <6319@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 23 Mar 90 00:59:49 GMT
References: <327@spot.wbst128.xerox.com> <7269@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1003@rna.UUCP>
Reply-To: oppenhei@umd5.umd.edu (Richard Oppenheimer)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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In article <1003@rna.UUCP> dan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o) writes:
>In article <7269@hydra.gatech.EDU> mmitchel@msd.gatech.edu (Mark A. Mitchell) writes:
>>
>>I'm using a Video Seven VGA 1024i with Windows in 1024x768 resolution and
>>I don't experience these problems.  The redraw of moved windows, in fact,
>>is nearly imperceptable.  (My machine is comparable: Dell System 310, only
>>2 MB RAM.)  I am using Windows/286 rather than /386 because of some 
>>incompatibilities, but it would seem to me that this would make it slower if
>>it has any effect at all.  I have Windows/386 as well, so I'll try the same
>>operations with it when I get a chance.
>
>	I have, on another machine, a Video 7 VRAM card. That card is FAST.
>Works great with Windows 386, EXCEPT that the drivers have a bug such that
>when using the VRAM with DOS 4.01, a DOS-apps always defaults to the A: drive.
>This drives (:-)) me crazy. Video 7 claims this bug will be fixed in a new
>release SOON.
>	Does your VGA 1024i board have this problem ?

I have a Northgate 386 4MB, Video 7 VRAM, and NEC 3D. I run Windows/386 and 
have found no bugs or imcompatibilities with the drivers. I run DOS 4.01 and
use many DOS-apps, none of which default to the a: drive inadvertently.

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