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Article #542Re: More on Local Bus - What about Unix?? S3 vs. ET4000
From: Rob Laddish
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 18:29
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 18:29
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In comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc, visser@n6batws1.itwol.bhp.com.au (Martin Visser) writes:
>Related to this I've been told that a "dumb" ET4000 framebuffer card runs
>Windows faster than a smart S3 based card even when they are both local bus
>cards from the smae manufacturer. In the first case the 486/33 becomes the
>graphics accelerator connected directly to the ET4000's VRAM.
Really? I'd be real interested in your sources. Also, how about dos apps? S3
is suposedly a dog in these conditions.
Rob
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