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From: marshall@wind55.seri.gov (Marshall L. Buhl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: connector on vga boards
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Date: 13 Mar 90 20:16:47 GMT
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870646c@aucs.uucp (Barry Comer) writes:

>This may be a stupid queston, but I am going to ask it anyways. What is that
>little connector on most VGA boards for? Just wondering.

It's called the feature connector.  The only place I've seen it used was
on a Dell graphics processor board.  It allowed one to connect a standard
VGA card to a TI34010 based board.  This way, one can run standard VGA
stuff too.
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