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Article #360Re: Direct Memory Mapped displays for NeXT 486 (besides Dell JAWS)
From: Nathan F. Janette
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 16:52
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 16:52
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In article <1992Jul23.150932.1959@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> adrian@niagara.ucs.ualberta.ca (Adrian Smith) writes: > In article <1992Jul23.014214.14059@sfc.sony.com> berger@sfc.sony.com (Bob > Berger) writes: > > The only one we have found so far is the Dell JAWS, does anyone know of > other > > motherboard, VESA or EISA board display implementations that meet these > > requirements? > > According to the release anouncements about NS486, the only colour spec > the Intel port will support is JAWS. You *must* have video RAM on the > system bus in order to run the colour OS. Nothing else is fast enough... That would seem to contradict previous information from NeXT that described EISA color as the "mid-performance" option. -- Nathan Janette "I'm a NeXTstep man, Dept MB&B, Yale Univ I'm a NeXTcube guy" New Haven, CT nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (NeXT)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!cs.yale.edu!news From: nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) Subject: Re: Direct Memory Mapped displays for NeXT 486 (besides Dell JAWS) Message-ID: <1992Jul23.165252.14848@cs.yale.edu> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Nntp-Posting-Host: jacobi.biology.yale.edu Reply-To: nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT References: <1992Jul23.150932.1959@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 16:52:52 GMT Lines: 22