porter@caip.rutgers.edu (Adam Porter) (12/16/90)
Greetings, hardware readers. Your advice would be appreciated...
I'm shopping around for a good VGA card to go into a 386/25 with an
NEC Multisync 4D monitor. Here are the attributes I'm looking for:
1. Must do up to 1024x768 in 256 colors and have 1 MB of RAM.
2. Should be well-supported/fairly popular so I can use the higher
resolutions for both shareware and commercial applications.
3. Should be relatively FAST.
Thanks very much for any help you can offer.
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Adam Porter: Assistant SysAdmin, NEC Research Institute, Princeton NJ
adam@research.nec.com {...}!princeton!necserve!adam C:\> alpnbladt@aut.autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt) (12/19/90)
porter@caip.rutgers.edu (Adam Porter) writes: >Greetings, hardware readers. Your advice would be appreciated... >I'm shopping around for a good VGA card to go into a 386/25 with an >NEC Multisync 4D monitor. Here are the attributes I'm looking for: >1. Must do up to 1024x768 in 256 colors and have 1 MB of RAM. Try STB PowerGraph. It seems to be good. However, it arrived the other day without a manual and floppy. I think, this was a mistake of our dealer. I called him last week and he promised to send us manual and disks. There must be a manual for it, because he has read some sections of text describing the one and only one jumper on it. Since it uses the TSENG 4000 chipset it should be possible to use any driver that supports this chipset, I think. We didn't need the manual nor the disks because we will be running X-Windows (UNIX) on it which comes with its own "driver". >2. Should be well-supported/fairly popular so I can use the higher >resolutions for both shareware and commercial applications. It's a new board, but STB is well-known and even listens to USENET ! >3. Should be relatively FAST. Didn't try that, yet. Because I have trouble to boot Interactive UNIX with the Adaptec SCSI controller. If you want to go really fast, you should buy a board with a processor on it, e.g., the Hercules Station Card or something like that. >Thanks very much for any help you can offer. -- Norbert Bladt, Ascom Autelca AG, Worbstr. 201, CH-3073 Guemligen, Switzerland Phone: +41 31 52 92 14 Mail: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch UUCP: ..!uunet!mcsun!chx400!hslrswi!aut!nbladt