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From: buch@csc-sun.mckinsey.com (Michael Bucci)
Subject: Re: Super VGA in an IBM XT.
Message-ID: <1991May13.205551.1369@mck-csc.mckinsey.com>
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Organization: Cambridge Systems Center, McKinsey & Co., Inc.
References: <1991May6.115535.5317@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
Date: Mon, 13 May 91 20:55:51 GMT

In article <1991May6.115535.5317@marlin.jcu.edu.au> cpmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matthew W Crowd) writes:
>
>Is it possible to put a Super VGA card into an XT and get all the
>video modes?

It would be possible if you could find an 8-bit Super VGA card (good luck)!

>I am specifically looking for 640x480x256 and 320x200x256.

Even if you could, 640x480 graphics would be extremely SLOW on an XT.


buch@mckinsey.com  ====>  Michael Bucci
                          McKinsey & Company, Inc.
                          Cambridge, MA