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From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.unix.bsd,comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Question on Diamond Clock Synthesizer
Date: 13 Oct 1992 18:25:41 GMT
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In article <1992Oct12.061220.17620@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
>
>Why bother with Diamond,
>When you can buy an Orchid's F1280 or Artix's GraphicsEngine.

Because if Diamond's clocks were truly programmable, you could
use a Diamond card to drive a fixed-sync monitor, like a used Sun
gray-scale.  This would be a hefty boon, as there don't seem to 
be large mono monitors available for PCs.

c