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Article #16346Re: S3 drivers...
From: Hamish Marson
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 00:53
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 00:53
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In article <1993Jan9.184843.15043@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes: |In article <2b4dfd5c@f514.n202.z1.fidonet.org> George_Marengo@f514.n202.z1.fidonet.org writes: |> I've read a rumour that S3 Corp. has finished their OS/2 drivers and |>have sent them to board mfrs. Anyone out there heard any news from a |>board |>mfr? | |This rumor is apparently true. | |Orchid has released drivers for their Farenheit 1280 S3-based adapter. |The drivers support 800x600 and 1024x768 modes. | The rumour maybe true, but I don't think the orchid drivers are based on any code S3 wrote for OS/2. They are 16-bit, and I think are just updated OS/2 1.x drivers. PS> The drivers work fine except for the piss poor font rendering. |-- |Timothy F. Sipples | Read the OS/2 FAQ List 2.0i, available from |sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all/info |Dept. of Econ., Univ. | /faq, or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP") |of Chicago, 60637 | [Read the List, THEN post to ONE OS/2 newsgroup.] -- | Hamish Marson. | INTERNET h.marson@waikato.ac.nz | | University of Waikato | PHONE +64 7 8562889 xt 8181 | | New Zealand | FAX +64 7 8384066 | ===========Disclaimer :- Remember. You heard it here first.===========
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!wupost!waikato.ac.nz!terra.cs.waikato.ac.nz!terra.cs.waikato.ac.nz!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc Subject: Re: S3 drivers... Message-ID: <1iqgejINNa2t@terra.cs.waikato.ac.nz> From: hamish@terra.cs.waikato.ac.nz (Hamish Marson) Date: 11 Jan 1993 13:53:39 +1300 References: <2b4dfd5c@f514.n202.z1.fidonet.org> <1993Jan9.184843.15043@midway.uchicago.edu> Distribution: world Organization: Comp Sci, U of Waikato, New Zealand NNTP-Posting-Host: terra.cs.waikato.ac.nz Lines: 32