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From: as@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Andrew Stevens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.linux,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit
Subject: Re: ET4000/W32 and VESA VL-Bus
Message-ID: <1992Dec22.105250.2720@opal.comlab.ox.ac.uk>
Date: 22 Dec 92 10:52:50 GMT
References: <1992Dec16.155355.7416@netcom.com> <1992Dec16.191911.9003@bmerh85.bnr.ca> <1992Dec16.232647.13616@netcom.com>
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In article <1992Dec16.232647.13616@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
>In article <1992Dec16.191911.9003@bmerh85.bnr.ca> Daniel.Tessier@bnr.ca writes:
>>In article <1992Dec16.155355.7416@netcom.com>, hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
>>|> In article <BzBEI1.CH@aeon.in-berlin.de> thomas@aeon.in-berlin.de (Thomas Wolfram) writes:
>>|> >Hi,
>>|> >does anyone already using the new ET4000/W32 chip, perhaps in an
>>|> >VESA VL local bus version? How is the performance compared with
>>|> >ET4000AX and does it work with XFree86 1.1?
>>|> S3 is faster than the et4000 based technology the reason is because
>>|> of the server and its use of hardware assisted graphics functions.
>>|> We are about 6 times faster than an ISA et4000. ...
>>- "How fast is the ET4000/W32?"
>>- "The S3 is so fast, it'll blow Suns away"
>>
>>Try to keep your preaching/propaganda for people who actually wan it.
>>--
>I just copy again how fast is my X server. It appears that you can't read.
>Later chump,
1. The ET4000/W32 is *not* the same chipset as the ET4000 we all know
and love although it is backward compatible (ish?) at the register level.
2. ET4000/W32 supports 32bit wide access, has hardware assisted graphics
functions, and a bunch of other goodies.
3. I don't know of any boards available based on ET4000/W32
4. Given the above Xfree86, which has no drivers for the
new facilities in ET4000/W32, would either give 0 xstones (not work!)
or run at much the same speed as a stock ET4000.
Andrew
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