From: bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown) Subject: Re: Free software and the future of support for Diamond products Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 13:18:47 GMT
kkt@philabs.philips.com (Kim-Kiat Tan) writes:
> 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.
STB is the name of a company. They are in Texas. Their new, low-end,
24bit boards are called the Powergraph X24 and the Powergraph VL24.
The latter of these is for VESA local bus.
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