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From: ballard@ucs.ubc.ca (Alan Ballard)
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Subject: Re: 8514/xga dumb questions
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.153351.9156@unixg.ubc.ca>
Date: 26 Jun 91 15:33:51 GMT
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In article <1991Jun26.120451.21685@watson.ibm.com> larrys@ibmman writes:

>XGA is the next step up from 8514/A.  I don't have any specs on it, even
>though I use it.

It's the same resolution (1024x768x256) as 8514/A. The "step up" is in
performance (at least w.r.t the IBM adapters -- not sure how it compares to
third party 8514a).  The design appears to be optimized for GUI's, rather
than just for traditional vector graphics -- it has hardware support for things
like the mouse cursor.



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