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From: brian@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Brian Hoffman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Re: Enhanced graphics cards, XGA
Summary: yes it is
Message-ID: <1990Nov8.170021.17437@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 8 Nov 90 17:00:21 GMT
References: <2266@sparko.gwu.edu> <3970.27397b49@cc.helsinki.fi>
Organization: Columbia University
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In article <3970.27397b49@cc.helsinki.fi> tmottonen@cc.helsinki.fi writes:
>
>    BTW, IBM  announced  a new video adapter, XGA (extended grap-
>    hics array), that is used on  the  motherboards  of  the  new
>    PS/2s. Supposed  to be X times faster than normal VGA, 8514/A
>    compatible and add some new graphics modes (640*480*65536 co-
>    lors). It's not yet available as a standalone adapter but so-
>    meday ;-).
>
>	Teemu Mottonen	    |         |	internet: tmottonen@cc.helsinki.Fi
>    University of Helsinki  |         |   bitnet: TMOTTONEN@FINUH
>   Dept.of Computer Science |_________|	  decnet: HYLK::TMOTTONEN

Actually, the XGA adapter was annouced for 386 and 486 based microchannel
machines.  I believe the price of the card is about $1100.  However, the
educational discount price is closer to $650.



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