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Re: Windows accelerators, Paradise or Diamond???

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From: Jeff Hartung
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 00:32
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In article <1992Sep27.142855.1@cstp.umkc.edu> lcsim@cstp.umkc.edu (Lin-Chow Sim) writes:
>    Agreed, Diamond TS s*cks big time ...  They keep on failing on their
>promise of a bug-free or at least usable driver for the past god know how many
>months ..  DOS Command will not run in a Window, despite of trying every pif
>config. I can find.  Sometimes Windows crashes because of a GFP at the driver

Maybe this is irrelevant, but since the Orchid Fahrenheit 1280 is also an S3
based card, wouldn't it be possible to use Orchid's drivers with the Diamond
Stealth?  I have had very few problems with Orchid's video drivers.

>program itself ... If I have known their way of doing business, I would have
>shell out a couple of more bugs for a ATI :(
	   ^ ^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^^^

Freudian slip?  :-)


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