From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) Subject: Re: Phone numbers needed and INFO about ATI boards. Date: 7 Nov 1992 16:35:06 GMT
In article <1992Nov6.183410.8577@utdallas.edu> ramesh@utdallas.edu writes:
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>BTW, all those who read my earlier message about "ATI Graphics ultra cannot do
>1152x900" I have news. I talked to folks in ATI and they say you can if you
>program Mach 8 directly.
Yes, but it will run like a dog.
1152x900x256 takes up nearly all the on-chip VRAM; there will not be enough
left to cache fonts. If you've ever seen an accelerated server without font
caching, you know what this means.
If the resolutions are flexible and you didn't use too many fonts,
something like 1152x870 would work.
>Documents about mach 8 is freely available for $50.
This is a recent development, and good news.
c