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Rajesh Varia <raj@c4rv.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>In article <814669753snz@wookie.demon.co.uk>
>           wookie@wookie.demon.co.uk "John Beardmore" writes:

>> I need some ISA bus video cards to go in some old AST machines with speeds
>> ranging from 486/20 to 486/100.
>> 
>> It would be good to have resolutions up to 600*800 24 bit colour with a
>> range of refresh rates.
>> 
>> The machines run Warp, NT, '95, Dos and win16. Good drivers for all of those
>> are required.
>> 
>> What manufacturers products might meet this sort of spec ?
>> 
>If you want the best support in different O/S and you are limited to
>ISA, look no further than the ET4000 chipset cards.  You will have to
>check the spec of the particalur implementation to see colour depth/
>refresh rate. 

Well I seem to recall, many moons ago that I returned an ET4000 1MB
ISA card and took away a Cirrus 5422 based 1MB ISA card. Both had the
usual resolutions for 1MB and 16M colour ramdacs. ISTR the Cirrus was
20-30% quicker on most benchmarks.

Even now the 5434 offers better value than the ET4000w32 for low cost
PCI cards.

A second hand 5422 (or ET4000) should cost about 20 ukp I guess if in
good cond.