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From: brian@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Brian Hoffman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: XGA video-boards ?
Message-ID: <1991Feb21.210212.25694@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 21 Feb 91 21:02:12 GMT
References: <3126@oce-rd1.oce.nl> <1991Feb21.143622.1390@urz.unibas.ch>
Reply-To: brian@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Brian Hoffman)
Organization: Columbia University
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In article <1991Feb21.143622.1390@urz.unibas.ch> ganter@urz.unibas.ch writes:
>In article <3126@oce-rd1.oce.nl>, prvh@oce-rd4.oce.nl (P. v. Houten) writes:
>> I've got to know what the new XGA video-boards from IBM can produce.
>> Can it display 24bit full color pictures?
>
>Yes.
>
>> What are the resolutions, and what are the maximum number of colors at
>> these resolutions?
>
>> What sort of PC do you need for this card?
>
>> How much does it costs?
>
>This card is another unsuccessful idea of Big Blue to show, that 
>they still exist. As far as I know it is a SVGA (640x400x256, whouw !, 
>800x600x16 and 1024x768x16) and 320x200x2^24 (2nd whouw). 
>To work with a card like this must be a torture...
>
>You need a PC with the famous three letters, because it is an MCA card.
> 
>Price ? Again, remember the three letters.
>
>Robert
>
>Robert Ganter
>ganter@urz.unibas.ch

If all you are going to do is rag on IBM, do it someplace else.  It wouldn't
be as bad if you were even partly right, but when you consider that your facts
were wrong combined with your blatant IBM bashing, it makes you look very
stupid.

XGA can do 1024x768x256 interlaced and 640x480x64000.  I'm sure it also does
some in-between resolutions, but I'll try not to post incorrect info.

As you can see, XGA does not do 24 bit color.

Robert is correct in that the card only runs on MCA machines.  I don't know
the answer to your animation question.



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