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  • From: 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org
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  • Subject: Re: [BL] BL3 on 386sx no-copro update
  • Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 08:38:35 +1300

sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > Some old video cards are very slow. Very, very slow.
>
> We have a 386 board into which we put 4M RAM and tested
> two video cards with it. First was 512K video RAM

8bit or 16bit?

> Then we put in our fastest ISA video card with 1MB RAM
> and it displayed just as slowly.

I found a big difference between 8bit VGA video cards and
16bit VGA cards. VLB video cards are even faster.

> I would not try to use a 386 as an Xterminal because of
> video speed, even with a fast video card, a copro, or
> 8MB RAM

A 386dx40 with 8mb RAM works fine as an Xterminal
(particularly when it's running VLB video). I ran
such an Xterminal for a long time. It performed well
(better in fact than my 486sx25).

Cheers,
Steven

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