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From: dlow@pollux.svale.hp.com (Danny Low)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: SUPER VGA or what there is
Message-ID: <6710003@pollux.svale.hp.com>
Date: 16 Apr 91 23:36:44 GMT
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> My question is  are all SUPER VGA boards compatible with 
> each other, such that if one manufacturers board fails
> I can plug in another manufacturers board and proceed with
> no problems in the software.

No. VESA (Video Electronics Standards Association) has a SuperVGA
standard but it is new and incomplete. Right now any SuperVGA
card you buy will be incompatible with any other SuperVGA card.
You basically have to settle on a company and stick with them.
The only good aspect is that many VGA cards use a common chipset
(e.g. Paradise, Tseng or Headland) and are mostly compatible with each
other for that reason.

			   Danny Low
    "Question Authority and the Authorities will question You"
	   Valley of Hearts Delight, Silicon Valley
	     HP NPCD   dlow@pollux.svale.hp.com