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From: d87-mal@oddjob.nada.kth.se (Mats Löfkvist)
Subject: Re: 928 chipset?  was Re: What is the best VGA card for 386BSD???
In-Reply-To: kwan@netcom.com's message of Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:19:42 GMT
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In article <1992Nov20.181942.15615@netcom.com> kwan@netcom.com (Kwan-Seng Low) writes:

   Would be interesting if someone could run bench mark on the VL version versus
   ISA version of the 801 to see VL really outperform the ISA...

Is the server ready to make full use of a 32-bit path to the graphics card?
If not (which I think is the case), there is potential for another factor two
speed increase...
      _
Mats Lofkvist
d87-mal@nada.kth.se