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From: john@iastate.edu (John Hascall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: what to buy...what to buy *sigh*
Date: 8 Mar 1994 13:40:41 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa (USA)
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Daryl Morse <morse@quark.mpr.ca> wrote:
}I believe that the HX graphics adapter was built-in on the 5000/xx,
}but it is definitely a separate card on the 5000/1xx.

    The Personal DECstation 5000/xx series does indeed have
    a built-in graphics card, but it is the yucky "PMAG-DV"
    which is 1024x768.  The "HX" ("PMAGB-BA") is 1280x1024.

John