[net.graphics] Graphics Boards for Personal Computers

ken (01/08/83)

			HOORAY FOR NET.GRAPHICS!

    I have been looking through a fair amount of literature for good
multibit graphics boards, with color capability.  Two manufacturers
that struck my fancy were Matrox and Ikier, both of whom make Multibus
boards.
    Matrox has a 512 x 512 x 4-16 board called the RGB-GRAPH.  They
have just recently come out with a 2K x 2K x 4-16 superhigh resolution
board capable of displaying 1600 x 1200, 1024 x 768, and others, called
the GXB-1000.
1280 x 1024 x 4.
    Has anyone used any of these boards? I understand that they all use
the NEC 7220 chip, and so are a dog to interface to, especially if one
wants to do anti-aliasing.  I would appreciate hearing from anyone who
has had experience with either these or other 512 x 512 x 4 boards or
bigger.

			Ken Turkowski
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