From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) Subject: Re: Best Video Card ?? Date: 17 Jul 1992 18:01:47 GMT
In article <1992Jul16.110839@hammer.Prime.COM>, cummings@hammer.Prime.COM (Kevin Cummings) writes:
|> If you want a graphics accelerator card (fast bitblits, hardware assisited
|> line/polygon drawing, etc), get an S3 card. The Diamond Stealth can be
|> found for $239-$249 if you look through the August Computer Shopper. Try
|> Micro-Pro. X386 does not (yet?) support any S3 boards, but MS-Windows does.
|> I'm not sure about OS/2. I don't remember getting any OS/2 drivers from Diamond.
|> Perhaps S3 has some?
I'm not sure that's the best advice. The 8514 compatible cards are
supported by the X11R5 server (or at least the ones I've been using). I
assume that linux will upgrade to the current release sometime and then
the 8514 card will be supported. There are MS-windoes drivers for them
now, but I have no idea (or concern) with OS/2.
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