Re: Super VGA in an IBM XT.

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From: Stephen Medlin
Date: Wed, 08 May 1991 13:57

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In article <1991May6.115535.5317@marlin.jcu.edu.au>, cpmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au
(Matthew W Crowd) writes:
>
>Is it possible to put a Super VGA card into an XT and get all the
>video modes?
>
>I am specifically looking for 640x480x256 and 320x200x256.
>
>matt.

Matt,
	I haven't tried it myself, but I have read that you can do this. 
However, I have also read (and experienced) about the limitations that the CPU
can impose on the video card.  You have to have enuf horsepower to drive the
higher resolutions.  You might not get a real performance boost like you would
hope or expect.  Hope that everything works for you :-)

SVM

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