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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
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Subject: XGA (was OS cost component of workstation)
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Date: 8 Nov 90 17:32:47 GMT
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In article <8bC=xse00VpgQb9lNc@andrew.cmu.edu> mh2f+@andrew.cmu.edu (Mark Hahn) writes:
|there is hope in the future for using commodity parts
|for cheapix, but it's not here now.  pervious posts have
|identified a major weak point in the plan: monitor and 
|graphics adapter.  there are some bits of news in the press
|about a new IBM standard called XGA, which is, 
|as I recall, 1024x768 in color.  it seems reasonable to expect 

There's one important point, however. IBM is only offering
it in MicroChannel because it operates in bus master mode,
something ISA machines are not highly reliable at doing.
Of course, there's always EISA.

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