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In article <C18Epr.1BE@srgenprp.sr.hp.com> roger@sr.hp.com (Roger Petersen) writes:
>In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware, ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu <Iskandar Taib> writes:
>
>| In article <blah blah> roger@sr.hp.com (Roger Petersen) writes:
>|
>| >The 5E runs at 72 Hz up to 1024x768, which is nice.  But since I run
>| >Windows at 800x600 (14" isn't really big enough for 1024x768), it's not
>| >as exciting as I had hoped.  (Still handy for other apps., however.)
>|
>| I think your problem is the Trident card. The Trident 8900C 
>| chipset was a plot hatched by the Devil to force Windows users 
>| to move to OS/2 (the Trident is supposedly the only SVGA chipset
>| that has decent OS/2 drivers). Dump it and get a Tseng based card.
>
>I don't quite understand your comment, Iskandar.
>
>I don't have any problem getting my Trident + Viewsonic 5E to run
>Windows at 1024x768x8.  It's just that the tiny icons and text
>are a bit small (on a 14" CRT) for my preference.  Just like Ou Zhao said.

I was being a little facetious. What I should perhaps have 
said was that the installer routines for a lot of Trident based
cards don't let you install the 8514 font set, which will display
a lot bigger on your monitor (the 8514 was IBM's 15 or 16" 1024x
768 monitor).




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