"simon chang" <simon.chang@canrem.uucp> (05/26/91)
also c.c to: yon%smltalk.cbm.dec.com@decwrl.dec.com Re Subject : ATI 8514/Ultra...first impressions Re Article : 1991.May.22, by David Yon, DY>, From Digital Equip. Corp. Re Address : yon%smltalk.cbm.dec.com@decwrl.dec.com Received : 1991.May.24, by BBS-CRS Premium Bulletin Board - USR HST 14. DA>I got my new 8514/Ultra last night...<used> 386/33 64k cache..8 meg.. DA>130 MB hard disk... DY>Windows booted at 1024x768x256, and WOW! What a difference! The old >800x600x16 driver was crisp, but this thing makes Windows *electric*! >Iconizing a window causes the background to be *instantaneously* blitted >over the area the window occupied! Pull-down menus and dialog boxes all >come up extremely fast and are painted with lightning speed! Moving >windows around the screen is an instantaneous operation. And this is at >256 colors! Even the VGA-wonder 16-color driver doesn't even come *close* DY>to this kind of response. Oh My friend, even you don't have 8514/Ultra. Windows 3.0 will still run quite smoothly in your system. With you system resources you can run the 32-bit OS/2 ver2 with multiple DOS boxs and PM applications quite comfortably (multitasking, multithreading and push the cpu utilization to "where no DOS has gone before" ). BTW, I won't be too surprise (according your statistic report) that your 8514/Ultra *may has the built-in graphic controller. This (task) controller can take over many things *directly* without use the cpu time. That explains why it's extremely fast in graphic oriented application, e.g Windows 3.0. uunp: lsuc!canrem!simon.chang internet: simon.chang%canrem.uucp@lsuc.on.ca (law society of upper canada) --- * SLMR 2.0 * This message was brought to you by Dickson Hill Ltd. -- Canada Remote Systems. Toronto, Ontario NorthAmeriNet Host