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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Hacker's Choice for Hardware
Date: 24 Aug 1995 10:28:43 +0200
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Jin Guojun[ITG] <jin@eubie.lbl.gov> wrote:

>>5. PCI VGA card of some sort (it's actually helpful to go PCI for as much
>>   as you can, if only to avoid unintentional hardware conflicts).
>>
>Diamond Stealth 64 Dram/Vram are much better than ATI mach 64.

I would not trust Diamond to sell the "Stealth" tomorrow with the same
hardware configuration as they are selling today.  Nevertheless,
they'll still continue calling it a "Stealth 64 XRam"...
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)