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In article <11320009@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com> robl@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Rob Laddish) writes:
>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.

Nope... from the few reviews I've seen the Tseng based local bus video
is several times faster than ISA Tseng video. The local bus S3 is faster
yet, but the increase between the local bus and ISA versions wasn't all
that much (though it was indeed faster) since the bandwidth taken up by 
the S3 was so much less.

Thing I can't remember was: are local bus Tseng cards faster than ISA 
s3 cards???? Thats the important question IMHO.






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