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From: ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies)
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Subject: Re: XGA (was OS cost component of workstation)
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Date: 9 Nov 90 06:17:01 GMT
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In article <1990Nov8.173247.16818@amd.com> phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
>In article <8bC=xse00VpgQb9lNc@andrew.cmu.edu> mh2f+@andrew.cmu.edu (Mark Hahn) writes:
>|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.

There's a crop of TIGA boards, based on the TI 340x0 graphics CPU,
that's becoming pretty popular; the 34020 is pretty fast too. And
there's the 8514/A clones, I believe the Paradise board is around
$600 and does non-interlaced 1K by 768, though you have to buy a
VGA card separately.  All these are for ISA.

(IMHO TI's 340x0 is the way to go.  Feel free to disagree with me.)
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