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From: dlow@pollux.svale.hp.com (Danny Low)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: VGA chip sets
Message-ID: <5870044@pollux.svale.hp.com>
Date: 22 May 91 20:27:16 GMT
References: <1991May20.225444.5667@serval.net.wsu.edu>
Organization: HP Lovecraft Division
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>(James Kirk) 
>Our dept. recently picked up a 386-25 box with an SVGA card using the 
>Paradise chip set.
>  Question1: Is it normal for windows to take two to three seconds to
>             repaint a screen? (actually about two thirds of the screen)
>             This is in the 1024X768 mode.

Yes. It is even normal if you have a hot super high speed graphics
coprocessor card instead of a VGA card. What's your disk doing
while the repaint is going on? I bet it's trashing like mad.

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