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Article #497Re: Origin - CD-only forever!
From: th... Tom Hong
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 1994 08:08
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 1994 08:08
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In article <D07Lz...@scu.edu.au>, Nightfox <pfle...@scu.edu.au> wrote: >: Is this a 128-bit graphic card or something else? >I got the impreesion that it was a graphic card. I really can't remember >where I read it though. Maybe they'll get getting bigger busses with every >new motherboard, until the get one that stretches from here to the moon :) When they say a graphics card is 24-bit, 32-bit, 64-bit, or 128-bit, it has nothing to do with bus width. All the above cards use a 32-bit- datapath bus (PCI, VLB, or EISA), or 16-bit if one still uses an antiquated ISA machine. 24-bit simply means the ability to display 16.7 million colors at 640x480, 32-bit means 800x600x16.7m, 64-bit means 1024x786x16.7m, and 128-bit means 1248x1024x16.7m. The only 128-bit graphics card out there right now is the Imagine128 by Number Nine, which is bundled with Dell Pentium-90s. It uses the 32-bit PCI bus. TRH Sends
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