Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: NEC Multisync, GB-1 graphic board
Message-ID: <8288@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: 22 Dec 87 03:06:19 GMT
References: <1180@cg-atla.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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I have had a GB-1 for about a year. It is okay, but has the following
problems: it is slightly slower than many other EGA cards available. It
is not VGA compatible, and from talking to the manufacturer, it won't
get a BIOS upgrad. The hard ware is not compatible. On the plus side, I
ordered the compatibility module which does CGA and Hercular emulation.
This includes a separate Z80 CPU, and works very well. It allows me to
run a number of things which won't run on any EGA I've tried.

If I were buying an EGA/VGA today, I'd probably get the new Everex board
which does all 17 VGA modes in hardware. It also does 640x480x256, and
800x600x256. The 256 colors make a big diference in image processing,
less in graphics applications.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me