rjs@moss.ATT.COM (06/07/88)
A word of warning: the ATI EGAwonder interface card does not exactly clone
one of the EGA graphics modes (or one of the CGA graphics modes apparently).
I bought one of these cards last November for use in my AT clone. Up until
April of this year I had no trouble with it and every program I tried seemed
to work fine. Then in April I purchased a Logitech Hi-Rez mouse and a
program called TurboCAD, neither of which worked with the EGAwonder card.
A call to Logitech told me that I needed an upgrade to the BIOS chip for
the card. I called ATI and received one. The mouse now seems to work, but
there are some subtle problems with the display that may or may not
foreshadow further incompatibilities. Milan Systems America (producers of
TurboCAD) have not been able to identify the problem (other than to determine
that it's something in the interaction between TurboCAD and the EGAwonder
card). They are working with ATI directly to try to find out what the
difference is. I suspect this will eventually result in either another
BIOS update, or a change to TurboCAD.
So far, all three companies have demonstrated very pleasant and professional
product support groups. The TurboCAD <-> EGAwonder interface bug seems to
be a pretty subtle one though since neither Milan Systems America nor ATI
have been able to correct it yet (about 1.5 months so far).
Robert Snyder
{ihnp4|clyde}!moss!rjs
(201) 386-4467
The above statements are my own thoughts and observations and are not
intended to represent my employer's position on the subject(s).
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know for sure which words are. A safe bet would be to consider any word
with more than one capital letter to be a trademark.