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From: dlow@hpspcoi.HP.COM (Danny Low)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Why do magazine's review mail-order PC brands
Message-ID: <1640078@hpspcoi.HP.COM>
Date: 14 Mar 90 00:42:18 GMT
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Organization: HP Lovecraft Division
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>Look at the parts in a Vectra.  Paradise video card, for all intents and
>purposes (or at least Paradise video controller chips).  Custom IC's?
>Where?  On the motherboard, maybe.  On the peripheral boards?  Where?

Yes we use the Paradise VGA chip set. So do many other VGA board
makers. However our VGA board is our own design and made in our
own surface mount facility. If you read the various VGA comparison reports,
the HP VGA cards passes/fails the compatibility tests differently
than the VGA cards from Paradise. In that respect we are no
different the other VGA makers who also use the Paradise chip set
but design and build their own VGA cards.
They also pass/fail the tests differently. 

			   Danny Low
    "Question Authority and the Authorities will question You"
	   Valley of Hearts Delight, Silicon Valley
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