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From: kwkyan01@uctvax.uct.ac.za
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Date: 25 Mar 91 10:22:50 GMT
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In article <1991Mar19.030243.26274@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu>, nan@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Nan Zou) writes:
> rubin@visual1.jhuapl.edu (Don Rubin) writes:
> 
>>At a trade show I got some literature from a company that
>>has a VGA card that has 1536x1280 APPARANT resolution on
>>a 640x480 VGA monitor. It uses a C&T 82C452 chipset. Is 
>>this for real, how do they do it, anyone have this card,
>>how is the Windows 3.0 driver? Thanks...
> 
> Sounds like a card with Edsun CEG chips, these chips replace the RAMDAC
> on a standard VGA card and has anti-aliasing hardware builtin, hence
> the increase in apparant resolution. I heard there is a little prefomance
> degradation, how much slower?
> 
> Orchid is supposed to have such a replacement chip out soon. I haven't
> called them so I don't know if it's out already. Has any Orchid owner gotten
> this chip yet?
> 
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>            Nan Zou              | Bitnet  : nan@ksuvm
>     Kansas State University     | Internet: nan@math.ksu.edu
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A company called 'Monolithic' has released a VGA compatible card, using the
Edsun CEG chip. (it can display > 750,000 simultaneously) The card comes with
a floppy/IDE hard drive controller & 2 serial/1 parallel ports. Does anybody
know any new cards using the Edsun CEG chip ?

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 	   Yann KWOK             |
    University of Cape Town	 | "kwkyan01@uctvax.uct.ac.za"