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From: rreiner@yunexus.YorkU.CA (Richard Reiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Mentor & Trident VGA cards - which one is the best ?
Message-ID: <22310@yunexus.YorkU.CA>
Date: 6 Apr 91 22:03:38 GMT
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>But for X11R4, Trident chipset is not so good anymore.  Thomas Roell, the 
>creator of the famous X386 X11R4 port PD server, considers the memory manage-
>ment of Trident chipset braindamaged so he decided not to support it.  ET4000
>was instead chosen.

Not quite right.  In a recent posting, Roell did call the Trident
memory management brain damaged, but he stated that he *does* plan to
support it.  All he concluded from the brain-damagedness was that the
Trident 8900 would not be as fast running his server as the Tseng
ET4000.

//richard