Re: 24-BIT SVGA cards $199.00 NEW!

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From: Bailey Brown
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1992 17:16

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rene@hardy.u.washington.edu (Rene Magritte) writes:

>	Does the card indeed do a 800x600x32000?   If so, I'll order
>it in a second and consider the 24 bit mode a "nice touch".  I seem to
>recall, though (perhaps incorrectly) that it didn't handle 800x600x32k
>mode.

Diamond now has an accelerated 640x480x24bit, 800x600x32K, 1024x768x256,
and 1280x1024x16 card for $200.  It uses the Western Digital 9031 GUI
accelerator, and it is backwards compatible with the Paradise SVGA.

I got one last week, and it, to quote the Frenchmen in the castle, is
"very nice".

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Bailey Brown                               "Above all else, confusion reigns."
Intergraph Corporation                                  
bbrown@casca.b11.ingr.com                              Procol Harum

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From: bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown)
Subject: Re: 24-BIT SVGA cards $199.00 NEW!
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