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From: josv@inter.NL.net (Jos Vos)
Subject: Re: PCI bus cards (graphics and SCSI) which work?
Message-ID: <Cn9pq2.8yq@inter.NL.net>
Organization: NLnet
References: <2mslqq$1vl8@rs560.cl.msu.edu>
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 1994 10:42:02 GMT
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evans@rs560.cl.msu.edu (jeffrey d evans) writes:

>  What high performance graphics cards are there for the PCI local bus that are
>out and have decent support for them.  I want to keep all my options open as 
>far as operating systems go(OS/2, Linux(Xfree86), NeXtStep, NetBSD...).  I also
>want to atleast a 1280x1024 256 colors 72hz noninterlaced top resolution and 
>display rate(I will consider others though). 

>  here's the info I have so far :

I'm considering to buy the SPEA/Video-7 Mercury PCI with 2 MB VRAM.
It can do what you want.  Unfortunately I have (until now) only heard 
of people using the VLB version of this card, so I'm not sure about
100 % compatibility between the VLB and PCI versions.

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--   Jos Vos   <josv@NL.net>