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From: bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown)
Subject: Re: Free software and the future of support for Diamond products
Message-ID: <1992Sep28.131847.5129@infonode.ingr.com>
Keywords: Diamond, free-software
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
References: <1992Sep25.075815.10416@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> <7s0nqk-.hasty@netcom.com> <1992Sep25.225821.26683@infonode.ingr.com> <1992Sep26.174107.1594@philabs.philips.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 13:18:47 GMT
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kkt@philabs.philips.com (Kim-Kiat Tan) writes:

>	What is the STB stands for ? I am shopping for a system with true
>24 bits color graphic, I saw a lot of Speedstar 24x, but since I am planning to
>program the card directly, Speedstar 24x is out if I cann't get information as
>to how to program it. But I have a hard time finding out what other vendors
>have a true 24 bits graphics display, anybody ? Also I am also looking at local
>bus (so I don't pay penalty for the graphic when running DOS programs using
>the local bus as compared with just the accelerated card), but most local bus
>graphic seems to only support 32k color.

STB is the name of a company.  They are in Texas.  Their new, low-end,
24bit boards are called the Powergraph X24 and the Powergraph VL24. 
The latter of these is for VESA local bus.

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Bailey Brown                               "Above all else, confusion reigns."
Intergraph Corporation                                  
bbrown@casca.b11.ingr.com                              Procol Harum