Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ria!uwovax.uwo.ca!baer
From: baer@uwovax.uwo.ca
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Running OS/2 on 486 clone ATs,SVGA cards
Message-ID: <1991Mar2.165436.8723@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 2 Mar 91 21:54:36 GMT
References: <1991Feb22.085318.9129@praxis.co.uk> <1991Feb26.222006.21306@ingres.Ingres.COM>
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> We are running 1.3SE on a Northgate 486, which uses a pretty generic
> clone motherboard.  We have no problems with it.  I would urge you, though,
> to spend the extra money for more memory -- try 16mb.  You'll appreciate the
> reqults.  Also, make sure that you get a Super VGA card that has drivers for
> 1.3 (or 1.21 -- I think they're the same drivers);
 many cards do not have them.
> 

Re: SVGA cards.   I would recommend avoiding ATI until they clear up their
policy regarding drivers for OS/2.  Right now, they supply 1.1 drivers, but
I was told over the phone that they do not intend to provide 1.2 or 1.3
drivers (they *might* provide 2.xx drivers).   Curiously, a fall (Oct or
Nov, I forget which) ad in PC magazine boasted of drivers for Windows, etc.
*and* Presentation Manager.   I wrote a letter to ATI complaining about
their policy of not spending the extra effort on 1.2 or 1.3, and will post
my response to this letter (if I get a response).

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Douglas Baer, 
University of Western Ontario, London, Canada N6A 5C2
Internet: BAER@UWO.CA    Bitnet: BAER@UWOVAX