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From: jbm@Brahms.INSL.McGill.CA (John McCluskey)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: 1024x768 resolution in 32,000 colors?
Summary: More marketing hype
Keywords: VGA cards, Windows3.0
Message-ID: <1991Feb3.205537.29529@Brahms.INSL.McGill.CA>
Date: 3 Feb 91 20:55:37 GMT
References: <665558004@macbeth.cs.duke.edu>
Organization: INSL, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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In article <665558004@macbeth.cs.duke.edu> mds@duke.cs.duke.edu (Mark David Shattuck) writes:
>
>	Just browsing through Computer Shopper tonight and
>noticed this ad from USA-FLEX:
>
>	ultimate Mega Color 16-Bit VGA Card
>	-1024x768 Resolution in 32,000 Colors
>	-interlaced and non-interlaced
>	-WINDOWS 3.0 DRIVERS INCLUDED
>
>The price was $269 w/512K and $49 to upgrade to 1MB.  This is
>possible since 1024x768x15 = 1M, but is windows able to take
                              ^^ don't you mean 1.536M ?

>-- 
>mark shattuck (mds@physics.phy.duke.edu)

In point of fact, I called up FLEX tech support, and they hemmed and
hawed, and admitted that somebody in marketing had blown a fuse.

The board is a remarketed version of the Platinum 4000 card, which I suspect
is just another Tseng-4000 board with 1Mb of on board RAM, and you can get
those for as little as $149 (see page 215 of Feb 91 Computer shopper).

On the same subject, let me take this opportunity to criticize Hercules for
only putting 1Mb of VRAM on their Graphics Station Card, thus crippling the
resolution for the 15bit and 24 bit display modes.  How long do we have to
wait for a reasonably priced card with 1024 X 768 X 15 (or 24) bit
resolution?  RAM is cheap, while good Monitors are expensive.  

John McCluskey

jbm%speedy.uucp@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu