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From: nam@risky.ecs.umass.edu (Joonwoo Nam)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: PCI bus cards (graphics and SCSI) (looking like Zeos)
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Date: 29 Mar 1994 18:50:51 GMT
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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jeffrey d evans (evans@rs560.cl.msu.edu) wrote:
: evans@rs560.cl.msu.edu (jeffrey d evans) writes:
: >Hi all,
: > I will be in the position to recomend a Pentium machine to purchase and had a
: >few questions about the few PCI cards out there.
: >
: > 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).
: < rest of my post hacked >
: Thanks for all the info that people have sent my way. The posts got a little
: confusing there for a while(kind of my fault) because I had originaly
: cross-posted to many different operating system groups.
: I think I'm going with a Zeos system. It's not my first choice, but it has
: about what I want(I think) and I have to buy everything from one company(plus
: it doesn't hurt that the guy signing the money order seems to like them).
: here's the specs:
: Pantera 60 or 66 Pentium system
: Diamond stealth pro PCI 2mb vram(maybe 1mb) S3928
In my knowledge, Diamonds are not suported with the exeption of the
Cirrus chip sets. Up to now functional resolution of Diamond is reported
to be 640x480 by someone. Are you going to hack it by yourserlf to get
higher resolution ? I am just curious and I like to know whether I am
out of date in this information.
:
: on board fast scsi2 controller (adaptic 6360 chip set?)
Are PCI 6360 chip set supported though on-board VLB implementation is
treated as unsupported ? An enquiring mind ...
: Nec 17" monitor (don't know which one yet, fg, fge, or fgp)
[stuffs deleted]
p.s. All of my infomations are coming from XFree86- and SCSI-HOWTO.
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Joonwoo Nam nam@nazgul.ecs.umass.edu
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
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