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Article #58Re: What VGA to buy (Summary)
From: Bill Kennedy
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 1990 06:58
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 1990 06:58
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}imdave@cbnewsc.att.com (david.e.bodenstab) writes:
}
}>About a week ago I asked if anyone had been successful using a VGA with
}>uport's SV/AT -- specifically, what brand/model of VGA.
}
}>As I received no responses, there isn't much of a summary. If anyone was
}>waiting for a summary, this is it. Sorry.
}
}>Of course, maybe this means that one cannot use a VGA with SV/AT.
}=======================
}
}n article <15@mport.COM> duc@mport.COM (Richard Ducoty) replies:
}You can use a VGA card - but not in VGA mode and *ONLY* if the board has
}hardware EGA compatability. You must use it as an EGA board.
}
}We will likely provide VGA modes sometime before the next millennium, but
}unfortunatly, it is not real high on our priority list
}
}
}Richard
First off, let me say that it's really nice to have Microport back in this
(and its predecessor) newsgroup. Welcome home! The group was started for
V/AT, it's nice to have an ear.
For those who read sysv.386, you might have seen me landing on Richard
and Microport pretty hard. If you haven't read much of what I have said,
let me get really clear. I _love_ V/AT! I don't ask a lot of it and it
never disappoints me. I use the stock async driver at 19.2Kbps (NS16550A)
and it never whimpers or coughs. I couldn't funtion without V/AT in my
luggable, it's great!
Now to land on Richard pretty hard with respect to V/AT :-) Mine works with
a VGA. That's more than I could say for AT&T Simul-Task '286 or '386. Heck,
AT&T 3.1.1 wouldn't even boot with a VGA in the room, much less the chassis :-)
OK, OK, which VGA? It's a MicroLabs VGA solution. Please don't post or email
me for buying information, my V/AT luggable is loaned out to chip@chinacat.\
Unicom.COM . He has ordering information, even if he growls about sending it.
:-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!execu!sequoia!balkan!wrangler!ssbn!bill From: bill@ssbn.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv286 Subject: Re: What VGA to buy (Summary) Message-ID: <1892@ssbn.WLK.COM> Date: 25 Nov 90 06:58:59 GMT References: <1990Nov20.020131.22868@cbnewsc.att.com> <15@mport.COM> Reply-To: bill@ssbn.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy) Distribution: na Organization: W.L. Kennedy Jr. and Associates, Pipe Creek, TX Lines: 43