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From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: 928 chipset?  was Re: What is the best VGA card for 386BSD???
Message-ID: <1992Nov22.023554.28528@netcom.com>
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
References: <1992Nov20.160442.11380@netcom.com> <1992Nov20.181942.15615@netcom.com> <D87-MAL.92Nov21180836@oddjob.nada.kth.se>
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 02:35:54 GMT
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In article <D87-MAL.92Nov21180836@oddjob.nada.kth.se> d87-mal@oddjob.nada.kth.se (Mats Löfkvist) writes:
>In article <1992Nov20.181942.15615@netcom.com> kwan@netcom.com (Kwan-Seng Low) writes:
>
>   Would be interesting if someone could run bench mark on the VL version versus
>   ISA version of the 801 to see VL really outperform the ISA...
>
>Is the server ready to make full use of a 32-bit path to the graphics card?
>If not (which I think is the case), there is potential for another factor two
>speed increase...
>      _
>Mats Lofkvist
>d87-mal@nada.kth.se

The XS3-0.2a is ready to make use of the 32-bit path to the graphics card.

Amancio Hasty