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athomson@otago.ac.nz (Alastair Thomson) writes:

>16 Bit Color System Support:

>Graphics Adapters - In order to provide adequate performance and  
>Color Quality, NeXTSTEP 486 requires High Performance "Workstation"  
>style Graphics Adapters. Many new Graphics Systems are being  
>introduced that meet these requirements, they include Intel JAWS  
>(such as DELL Processor-Direct Graphics), Chips and Technologies  
>Wingine, and certain Local Bus Graphics adapters. Depending upon the  
>size of available VRAM (Video RAM) resolutions of 800x600, 1024x768,  
>1120x832 and 1280x1024 will be supported. Graphics Adapters designed  
>for EISA based PC's are available (such as Compaq QVision 1024/E and  
>ATI Graphics Ultra Pro) or being developed, these are currently being  
>evaluated for performance and may provide an easy upgrade for  
>existing EISA PC's.

Can someone authoritatively tell me:
Will I be able to buy a video card that will run NS486 in Color that
plugs into a VESA Local Bus slot?
I am about to buy a 486 machine and this makes a big difference.  I
do not need to buy an EISA machine if I buy a machine with 3 Local
Bus slots: One for an ATI Ultra Pro, one for a 32-bit hard drive
adaptor, and one for a future product (maybe Ethernet). I would
almost accept being told 'We're not sure that it will run with the
ATI Local Bus card, BUT we can tell you that VESA Local Bus is fast
enough and some card will exist that will make it run, like JAWS'.
Anyone want to comment on this plan?


>Additional Device Support:

>Disk Interfaces - Both IDE and SCSI Hard Disk Interfaces will be  
>supported. SCSI adapters from Adaptec and DPT (for both ISA and EISA)  
>will be supported, with more to follow.

Someone in a different thread was worried that IDE would not be
supported.  Hopefully Local Bus IDE controllers will be supported!
 
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