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From: rommel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Kai-Uwe Rommel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: 800x600 driver for ATI card
Message-ID: <1991Jun4.113522.4718@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
Date: 4 Jun 91 11:35:22 GMT
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In article <1991May30.001531.104315@ramona.Cary.NC.US> andrew@ramona.Cary.NC.US (Andrew Ernest) writes:
>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)?

I have a Paradise 8514/A+ (*not* an ATI card) and it just works fine
with the IBM 8514/A driver for OS/2 and the ATI card should do this too.
A friend has such an ATI 8514 but did not yet test it with OS/2, only
with Windows so far but it works well there.

Kai Uwe Rommel

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