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From: todd@pinhead.pegasus.com (Todd Ogasawara)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Everex STEP 386/33 and Viewpoint VRAM SVGA Card
Keywords: Performance
Message-ID: <1991May16.025135.642@pinhead.pegasus.com>
Date: 16 May 91 02:51:35 GMT
References: <1991May10.130609.7369@hellgate.utah.edu>
Organization: Hawaii Medical Service Association
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In article <1991May10.130609.7369@hellgate.utah.edu> u-mwong%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Michael Wong) writes:
>   I'd like to get some opinions from people who own one of these items
>I've listed above.  Particularly, I'd like more information on the Everex
>VRAM SVGA card.   How does it speed compare with most other cards?  It has
>1Meg RAM and supports up to 1024x768 @256 colors and 1280x1024 @16 colors.
>I noticed that it has the Tseng 4000 chip on it.  Would the Seiko CM-1450 
>monitor (non-interlaced), which is what I have planned to get for the card,
>work well with it?  I'd appreciate any info on these items!

We had an Everex VRAM VGA card for a while and I would recommend against
buying it until Everex gets their driver problems under control. We had one
in an Everex Step 386/33 with all parts from Everex (including drives,
memory, EverSync CRT, etc.). We found all kinds of DOS and Windows programs
that just would not work with the VRAM in the system. So, we yanked it out
and put in a less sophisticated Everex card (I can't recall the model # at
the moment) and now everything works.

We came to this conclusion, btw, after numerous calls to software vendors,
the local Everex distributer, and Everex tech support.

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Todd Ogasawara ::: Hawaii Medical Service Association
Internet       ::: todd@pinhead.pegasus.com
Telephone      ::: (808) 536-9162 ext. 7