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From: grogers@uiucdcsb.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.graphics
Subject: Re: New IBM PC graphics board
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Date: Sat, 10-Nov-84 23:48:00 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 10 23:48:00 1984
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Nf-From: uiucdcsb!grogers    Nov 10 22:48:00 1984

The controller provides 640x480 resolution with 256 of 4096 colors.  I saw
an IBM demo of the new controller and monitor several weeks ago.  The demo
program dumped a series of very realistic looking pictures on the screen.
It took the PC-XT about 7 seconds (?) to move the picture from the disk to
the screen.  Although the XT's hard disk is relatively slow, it was not
apparent when the disk was being accessed (i.e. the screen fill never appeared
to stop because of an empty disk buffer.)

Greg Rogers
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