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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Two Page Displays
Message-ID: <2626@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 90 15:27:22 GMT
References: <1990Dec13.051945.2048@amd.com>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <1990Dec13.051945.2048@amd.com> phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes:

| For word processing, Macs seem better, unless there are some
| nice big, fast, inexpensive TPDs for PCs that aren't being
| advertised.

  The slow display performance is caused by slow drivers, and because
the chip design effects performance may or may not be correctable.

  Many people tell me the the VRAM and ATIwonder+ are much faster, and
the one ATI I've seen running wondows at work seems to bear this out.
How much is due to hardware or software I can't say.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
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