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Article #19753Re: 24 bit accelerator cards
From: Joe Daigle
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:54
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:54
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In article <74324@cup.portal.com>, DonH@cup.portal.com (Don - Hirschfeld) writes:
|> I would go for the Diamond Speedstar 24X which is faster and cheaper
|> than the 1280 . You can get it for about $160. You have to consider also
|> the speed of DOS operations. The 1280 was 50% slower than my cheapie
|> SVGA with DOS. The 24X was 2x the speed of 1280.
I too was thinking of getting the 24X. However, I have seen quite a bit of
bad publicity about their Windows 3.1 drivers. Does anyone know
if the drivers are bad first hand? Any hope of a fix?
thanks,
Joe
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!apollo.hp.com!netnews From: daigle@apollo.HP.COM (Joe Daigle) Subject: Re: 24 bit accelerator cards Sender: usenet@apollo.hp.com (Usenet News) Message-ID: <C1FDyC.Bv4@apollo.hp.com> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:54:12 GMT Reply-To: daigle@apollo.hp.com References: <1993Jan25.045933.24598@netcom.com> <74324@cup.portal.com> Nntp-Posting-Host: hiss.ch.apollo.hp.com Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Chelmsford, MA Lines: 35