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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: VEGA Deluxe board and Xenix
Message-ID: <6266@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 16-Jun-87 11:29:07 EDT
Article-I.D.: steinmet.6266
Posted: Tue Jun 16 11:29:07 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 21-Jun-87 07:40:13 EDT
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Reply-To: davidsen@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <632@rna.UUCP> dan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o) writes:
:
:	We just got a VEGA Deluxe (Video 7) EGA board and found that it does
:not work with Xenix. Their "tech support" people say confirm this
:incompatibility. Anybody have any further suggestions ?

send it back. you have the ad, it doesn't work. If you put it
on plastic you can notify the bank not to pay.

:
:	What irks me is that with the board come is glossy pamphlet proclaiming
:how wonderfully compatible the board is with every piece of software:
:"We believe in our board. So can you, because now compatibility is guaranteed."
:"If, for any reason, it's not (compatible) - we'll make it compatible."

save a notarized copy of that.

:"Nothing beats the VEGA Deluxe for software campatibility except maybe our
:	guarantee."
:
:	They also tried to insinuate that Xenix doesn't work with any EGA
:boards, which is distinctly untrue.

I'm posting on Xenix/EGA.

:
:	In light of their unwillingness to support the VEGA Deluxe with Xenix,
:I find this type of hype extremely misleading and also question how truly
:compatible the board really is with other software as well.

I have a NEC GB-1 home (I think Tseng labs eve480 is the same) and have
not had a problem with it yet. I bought the daughterboard with CGA and
Hercules support (lots of ICs and a Z80). This is *not* the fastest
board around in terms of screen update, but I save the update time back
by not fighting with it. Runs Xenix and V/AT just fine. For raw update
speed you might try Everex (I have one of those, too), but I haven't
tried it with UNIX yet.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me