ted@imsvax.UUCP (03/05/87)
The reality is that controller boards which can handle color resolution of 1024x1024 or thereabouts are now going for around $1600 rock bottom, and anything which could handle the monitor mentioned in the Byte article would probably also be in that ballpark. Give it another 8-9 months or so and cheap controller boards based on the TI 31040 chip should be avail- able in quantity. Resolutions should go slightly beyond 1024 squared. Ted Holden, IMS
davidsen@steinmetz.UUCP (03/06/87)
In article <697@imsvax.UUCP> ted@imsvax.UUCP (Ted Holden) writes: >The reality is that controller boards which can handle color resolution >of 1024x1024 or thereabouts are now going for around $1600 rock bottom, and >anything which could handle the monitor mentioned in the Byte article >would probably also be in that ballpark. Give it another 8-9 months or >so and cheap controller boards based on the TI 31040 chip should be avail- >able in quantity. Resolutions should go slightly beyond 1024 squared. I have in my hand a writeup on a new graphics board from Quad (probably made by Video7) called the Quad HPG card, which uses the Intel chip. Please don't send flames about Intel vs. TI, I didn't design it. Supposedly has 1280x768 resolution in 256 colors, is about 100 times faster then the EGA (how in hell do they measure that?), and costs $400-500. The sketch of the chip specs seem to indicate that thei could be a real product. It was shown at Comdex (Fall 86), so they had at least one. Perhaps not even 8-9 months... -- bill davidsen sixhub \ ihnp4!seismo!rochester!steinmetz -> crdos1!davidsen chinet / ARPA: davidsen%crdos1.uucp@ge-crd.ARPA (or davidsen@ge-crd.ARPA)