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Article #248Re: Zenith 386 Boat Anchors!!
From: ross boylan
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 1990 23:58
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 1990 23:58
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I have a 386/16Mhz Zenith. It has lots of problems when using the 386 features, because Zenith uses the address space between 640K and 1M in a nonstandard way (e.g., the frame buffer is at an unusual location). When I first tried desqview, I had problems with it hanging because it was messing with the frame buffer (does the memory mapping), which it mistakenly thought was in "free" space. Our Zenith rep says same issues apply with Windows 3.0, and probably Unix: it's safest to get stuff through Zenith. Once things are tweaked, they work OK. I would advise anyone not to buy a Zenith. Their hardware is unreliable, and they engage in marketing con jobs like selling VGA systems which aren't really VGA (as others have mentioned). On the other hand, once the hardware gets fixed and the software gets tweaked, they are more useful than boat anchors!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cica!iuvax!silver!boylanr From: boylanr@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (ross boylan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith Subject: Re: Zenith 386 Boat Anchors!! Message-ID: <52134@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Date: 25 Jul 90 23:58:48 GMT References: <169.26a5a941@miavx0.ham.muohio.edu> <8532@ur-cc.UUCP> <5388@milton.u.washington.edu> <price.648774803@vlsiws> <5436@milton.u.washington.edu> Sender: news@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu Lines: 16