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From: hopperj@dayton.saic.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Sys 7.0 and Apple 8/24 video card
Message-ID: <1991May15.150153.1608@dayton.saic.com>
Date: 15 May 91 19:01:52 GMT
References: <1991May15.151939.17943@linus.mitre.org>
Distribution: usa
Organization: Science Applications Intl. Corp., Dayton, Ohio
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In article <1991May15.151939.17943@linus.mitre.org>, patel@mwunix.mitre.org (Anup C. Patel) writes:
> In the May 13th issue of Infoworld, there is a small article on page 112
> that describes hardware that may be incompatible with Sys 7.0.  One such
> hardware is Apple's very own 24-bit color 8/24 Graphics Card according to	the article.
> 
> Is this true?  Is there anyone on the net who has this card and can verify
> the statment?  
> 
yes it is true (at least for the beta 4 version.  system 7 uses a new graphics
mode which seems to be incompatable with the 8/24gc.  if you turn off 
acceleration seems to work just fine.  looks to me as if they need to update
the AMD29000 version of quickdraw.  jim hopper