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From: drp@vpnet.chi.il.us (Douglas Pokorny)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: VGA Cards that work on PC's and 386's?
Message-ID: <2693c463-20b9.1comp.sys.ibm.pc-1@vpnet.chi.il.us>
Date: 6 Jul 90 01:55:04 GMT
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If you're looking for a fully-featured VGA card, I'd suggest that you
try the Paradise 1024 vga card.  It not only supports all VGA modes, but
super vga as well.  The maximum resolution of the card is 1024x768x16,
with several hi-res 256 color modes. (640x480x256 and 640x400x256)  It
is user-expandable to 512k, and best of all it is a 16-bit card which
will operate in an 8-bit slot.

To clarify, the vga card itself is 16-bit, (with the 2 connector halves,
one the standard 8-bit, and the other the 16-bit extension)  When plugged
into an AT/386 machine with 16-bit slots it is just that, a very fast
16-bit super VGA card.  However, if you plug just the 8-bit portion in,
and leave the 16-bit extension dangling, it is now an 8-bit card.

The greatest advantage to this, is, as you requested, that it is fully
upword compatable from 8088 to 80286 to 80386 machines.

-Douglas Pokorny (drp@vpent.chi.i.us)

Note:  I happen to own a Paradise 1024vga card, and a SamSung SyncMaster II
monitor, which is capable of the 1024x768x16 resolution.

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