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From: roell@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Thomas Roell)
Subject: Re: 8514 AX2 Any special?
In-Reply-To: stolk@fwi.uva.nl's message of 6 May 91 12: 14:22 GMT
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Date: Mon, 13 May 1991 10:01:08 GMT
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>The card is manufactured by Trident and has Tseng ET4000AX chips.
>My question:
>What does the AX in ET4000AX stand for?
>Is it a special 8514 compatible version of ET4000?

Ok, everybody who wonders about Trident and Et4000 this is true. There is
a Taiwanes company called Trident. This should be messed up with Trident
Microsystems, the one who manufactors the TGVA8900 chipset.

The board you are talking about is a normal Et4000 based board. No special
thing. The notes about FIFO and cache apply to every Et4000 since what meant
here is that the Et4000 can use delayed writes and some other stuff.

>card suggests that it is a 8514 compatible card. But is it? And

No. All the name is about is that with this board you'll get a 8514AI
compatible driver that lets your Et4000 board act like a 8514/A form the
view of the application which uses this driver.

- Thomas
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