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In article <BsL9yp.n38@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:

>>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.

Hmm, I don't know where you get your sources, but right in front of me
is a review of Local Bus vs. ISA bus video card comparison.

The difference between a local bus and an ISA bus in only about
70% in BITBLT and scrolling.  Everything else is less than 5%.


>
>Thing I can't remember was: are local bus Tseng cards faster than ISA 
>s3 cards???? Thats the important question IMHO.
>
Looking at the review, the ATI ultra and Farenheit 1280 were both an order 
of magnitude faster than either of the ET-4000 cards in most everything
but a couple things, so they seem to smoke.  

However, this is all windows stuff, so running under Unix I imagine
you would not see the drastic improvement. (Especially since currently
there is no support for the s3 cards.  Soon I hear, though)




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