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From: dhinds@portia.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: VGA Cards that work on PC's and 386's?
Message-ID: <1990Jul6.161746.11546@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 6 Jul 90 16:17:46 GMT
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In article <1640126@hpspcoi.HP.COM> dlow@hpspcoi.HP.COM (Danny Low) writes:
>>... [I] am curious if there is a VGA
>>card that will work in a PC/XT type machine and also in a 386...
>
>You need an 8 bit VGA card. Paradise is the only one that makes
>such a beast as far as I know. The alternative is a 16 bit card 
>that can operate in 8 bit mode. 

    The ATI VGA Wonder is a 16-bit card that claims to be able to work in
either 8-bit or 16-bit slots; it autodetects the bus width.  So, according
to the manual, it should do the job.  I haven't tried it in an 8-bit slot,
though.

 -David Hinds
  dhinds@popserver.stanford.edu