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From: joeb@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Joe Barnhart)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: 800x600 driver for ATI card
Message-ID: <11750016@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com>
Date: 4 Jun 91 00:56:10 GMT
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In comp.os.os2.misc, andrew@ramona.Cary.NC.US (Andrew Ernest) writes:

  | Hmmm, this discussion leads me to wonder about the 8514/Ultra card from
  | ATI.  Their ad on page 106 of the May issue of _PC Magazine_ says the
  | 8514/Ultra is register-compatible with IBM's 8514/A card and "software
  | compatible" (what does that mean?) with XGA cards.  If the bit about the
  | 8514/A compatibility is true, does this mean I can pop one of these in
  | an OS/2 system and count on IBM's 8514/A device driver working just fine
  | with it?  Anyone had any experience with it (under OS/2 or any other OS,
  | for that matter)?

Yes.  I just bought the 8514/Ultra and an NEC 4D monitor.  The standard
OS/2 1.3 driver works fine.  (I've even tried the OS/2 v2 beta, and it
works as well.)  ATI supplies a special "fast" Windows 3.0 driver, and
another Windows driver which supports their anti-aliased fonts.  Their
fast driver is, indeed, faster than the standard Windows 8514 driver.
(In fact, it's faster than the OS/2 driver, as well.)

-- Joe B.

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