From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: Free software and the future of support for Diamond products Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 04:02:03 GMT
In article <1992Sep26.174107.1594@philabs.philips.com> kkt@philabs.philips.com (Kim-Kiat Tan) writes:
>In article <1992Sep25.225821.26683@infonode.ingr.com> bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown) writes:
>>
>>higher end boards that use the '924 and have BNC connectors
>>as well as DIN. The new STB S3 boards now have 24bit modes.
>>
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>>Bailey Brown "Above all else, confusion reigns."
>
> What is the STB stands for ? I am shopping for a system with true
>24 bits color graphic, I saw a lot of Speedstar 24x, but since I am planning to
>program the card directly, Speedstar 24x is out if I cann't get information as
>to how to program it. But I have a hard time finding out what other vendors
>have a true 24 bits graphics display, anybody ? Also I am also looking at local
>bus (so I don't pay penalty for the graphic when running DOS programs using
>the local bus as compared with just the accelerated card), but most local bus
>graphic seems to only support 32k color.
>
>
The october issue of Byte magazine has an article on local buses.
For a complete list of vesa certified local bus components including
motherboards, contact VESA at 408-435-0333.
A little while ago, I read a review on a scsi local bus system
capable of transferring large files at a rate of 13MB/S.
Don't buy DIAMOND! They are coming out with a VESA local bus
motherboard so who knows what propieratory mechanism they
may have included in their motherboard.
Happy Reading and Shopping,
Amancio Hasty