Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: How to choose a new 386 UNIX PC... Message-ID: <535@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Date: 26 Sep 89 22:18:05 GMT References: <645@visdc.UUCP> <16097@vail.ICO.ISC.COM> <648@visdc.UUCP> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: GE Corp R&D Center Lines: 15 If someone wanted to write their own device driver, etc, for a super VGA there are some around which will do 1024x768 without breaking you. I have a Hedaka which went about $175, and which needs another batch of memory to get to 1024x768. Figure the total at $250 more or less. That would be a nice way to go X. Of course the cost of the monitor is so high that the board is not the major consideration. Note that CPU and memory (and even disk) are going down, but good graphics is still very painful. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon