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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!psinntp!psinntp!l5next!scotty From: scotty@gagetalker.com (Scott Turner) Subject: Re: Question on Diamond Clock Synthesizer Message-ID: <1992Oct13.024132.3721@gagetalker.com> Sender: scotty@gagetalker.com Organization: L5 Computing References: <1992Oct11.045446.1020@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 02:41:32 GMT Lines: 34 In article <1992Oct11.045446.1020@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: |> In article <1b7tmgINNi06@agate.berkeley.edu>, curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes: |> |> Er, well, actually two: |> |> |> |> (1) Can Diamond's "programmable" clock synthesizers generate |> |> _any_ frequency? Could they thus be used to drive a fixed-scan |> |> monitor? |> |> Don't know. I lost interest in Diamond hardware. I've lost interst in Diamond hardware for another reason: The STB Evolution VGA card This card does everything the Diamond cards do, 4/8/15/16/24 bit color, clock synthesizer (and a BETTER one than Diamond's!!!), on board mouse hardware eith separate color space in the DAC, and the ability to go into a linear memory scheme, and as if all that weren't enough, it has the ability to use all the fancy 4 plane hardware in 8 plane mode! This puppy vidspeeds identical to a Diamond and has twice the winmarks. Documentation on the board is available from Cirrus Logic, you need their CL-GD5422 data sheet. This is a true single chip VGA, the RAMDAC and clock synth are all on board so with this data sheet you've got complete dox on the STB card. I'm busily hacking a driver for it. Best of all the STB card costs close to 50% less than the Diamond cards. Bye bye Diamond! Scotty