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From: mike@starburst.umd.edu (Michael F. Santangelo)
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Subject: Re: ET4000/W32 and VESA VL-Bus
Date: 28 Dec 1992 05:11:31 GMT
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mike@starburst.umd.edu (Michael F. Santangelo) writes:

>January '93 BYTE magazine did a review of higher performance SVGA
>graphics accelerator boards (p.202-206).  The Orchid Fahrenheit VA
>which uses the 86C801 board did quite respectably in their tests
>(which were performaned on all the boards at 1024x768 resolution, 72Hz).
>The Actix Systems GraphicsEngine 32 also used the S3 based 86C801 and
>had even higher scores.  Yet according to your chart they can
>only use DRAM.  Again the tests in BYTE were at 72Hz.  Comment?

Wups.  Apologies everyone, I goofed.  They do not explictely state
they ran them at 72Hz, it was the max refresh rate I saw for the
cards I mentioned in the table on p.204-205.  It could be that they
used 72Hz, but we just don't know for sure.  They were definitly
using 1024x768 however at 256 colors.

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>Michael F. Santangelo                 + Internet: mike@cbl.umd.edu      [work]
>Computer & Network Systems Head       +           mike@kavishar.umd.edu [home]
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Michael F. Santangelo                 + Internet: mike@cbl.umd.edu      [work]
Computer & Network Systems Head       +           mike@kavishar.umd.edu [home]
Univ MD: CEES / CBL (Solomons Island) + BITNET:   MIKE@UMUC  [fwd to mike@cbl]