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From: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: OS cost component of workstation
Summary: why should XGA help???
Message-ID: <1990Nov8.234921.5830@ico.isc.com>
Date: 8 Nov 90 23:49:21 GMT
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mh2f+@andrew.cmu.edu (Mark Hahn) writes:
> ...there are some bits of news in the press
> about a new IBM standard called XGA, which is, 
> as I recall, 1024x768 in color...

OK, but 1024x768 is old news.  Even 1024x768 with 256 colors has been
around for a while.  XGA is supposedly for MicroChannel architectures,
which makes it uninteresting for most of the 86ish world.  One trade-
rag report put it at "up to 10% faster" than IBM's 8514, which would
be respectable speed, but nothing remarkable there either.

I don't see what XGA is going to provide that's new or different.
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