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In article <67qjgh_.bryanw@netcom.com> bryanw@netcom.com (Bryan Woodworth) writes:

>To meet my criteria, the board must not be prohibitively expensive; 
>must be compatible with a wide range of applications (I'd be 
>thrilled if it supported VESA, too; in fact I believe this is a 
>must now that I have contemplated it); and must be FAST!  

>Some may ask, "Well, what is fast?"  I will instead describe what 
>is SLOW.  When in 256 color mode, in a modem program, with the 
>screen updating each new incoming line of text at about 1 line ever 
>1.5 seconds -- this is SLOW!  Especially since I am at 9600 baud 
>and it seems like I have been relegated to using 300 baud once more!

Hmmmmm....

Two low-cost options would be a Tseng ET4000 based card (eg:
Diamond Speedstar) for about $150 mailorder or an S3 based
card (eg. Diamond Stealth) for about $260 mailorder. The S3 
would be about 6-10 X faster than the Tseng, which is no 
slouch. As you can tell I like Diamond's cards.

Meanwhile why not drop down to 16 color mode? That'll give 
you an instant speedup..



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