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From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Graphics cards, 768x1024x256
Message-ID: <1991Feb17.161516.9589@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 17 Feb 91 16:15:16 GMT
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A friend got, a couple of days ago, a new 33 MHz 486 PC with an Orchid
Prodesigner Plus card with a meg of memory. He set it up to run Windows in the
768x1024x256 color mode. It is amazingly fast. Far faster than my 20 MHz
386 machine running a Video 7 card at 600x800x16 colors. Screen redraws
when returning from a full-screen DOS session are almost instantaneous.

Have other people tried a similar setup? At least for what I tried, with
this setup I could only call Windows "blazingly fast".

Is this card the way to go?


Doug McDonald