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From: davidsen@steinmetz.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Too Good to Be True
Message-ID: <1270@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Mar-87 12:32:05 EST
Article-I.D.: steinmet.1270
Posted: Fri Mar  6 12:32:05 1987
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Reply-To: davidsen@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
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In article <697@imsvax.UUCP> ted@imsvax.UUCP (Ted Holden) writes:
>The reality is that controller boards which can handle color resolution
>of 1024x1024 or thereabouts are now going for around $1600 rock bottom, and
>anything which could handle the monitor mentioned in the Byte article
>would probably also be in that ballpark.  Give it another 8-9 months or
>so and cheap controller boards based on the TI 31040 chip should be avail-
>able in quantity.  Resolutions should go slightly beyond 1024 squared.

I have in my hand a writeup on a new graphics board from Quad
(probably made by Video7) called the Quad HPG card, which uses
the Intel chip. Please don't send flames about Intel vs. TI, I
didn't design it. Supposedly has 1280x768 resolution in 256
colors, is about 100 times faster then the EGA (how in hell do
they measure that?), and costs $400-500.

The sketch of the chip specs seem to indicate that thei could be
a real product. It was shown at Comdex (Fall 86), so they had at
least one.

Perhaps not even 8-9 months...

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