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If you use windows as your main application, there is nothing that I know of tūhat ūis better for speeding up the windows applications. You might also try local bus video. You need a EISA motherboard forū that, though.ū
Brent Bottles
Eric Moon - another big thing among graphics accelerator cards tailored for use
in Windows is, of course, a hardware cursor.
whoop whoop.
Joseph Schmoe: VESA is the Video Electronics Standards Association. This is
an association of various video electronics manufacturers and at least some
software manufacturers which, not surprisingly, sets standards for
video-related hardware.
Local bus video is a buzz-word very common these days, which refers to video
adapters that are placed on the CPU's "Local Bus" - the one running at 25, 33,
50, whatever external MHz your CPU uses, as opposed to the
ISA/EISA/Microchannel bus that you are used to plugging your expansion cards
into (which runs a maximum of 12MHz, or so).
The advantage is speed. (33MHz is faster than 12MHz. Really.)
Whoever it was up there who mentioned it was just spouting buzz-words, it
seems to me. A local bus VGA card, while being quite speedy, is not as nifty as
a decent (TMS 34020, or equivalent) co-processed video card.
Woobie.
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Eric Moon, I could use a graphics accelerator that speeded both Windows AND my CAD graphics. Is there such an animal?
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Whippersnapper - most (all?) graphics accelerators that I have seen that will
work well for CAD applications will also work well for Windows applications.
The graphics accelerators that are specifically targeted to windows may not
provide the same help under CAD applications.
In general, CAD applications will be looking for fast primitive drawing.
(Lines, circles, arcs.)
Windows will benefit from those as well, but will benefit more from BITBLK
operations and hardware cursors.
I have heard of many Windows accelerators that ONLY provide BITBLK operations
and hardware cursors - won't do CAD any bit of good.
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Whippersnapper: According to the December '92 issue of Computer Shopper, I would guess the card that you desire is the Diamond Speedstar 24X.
In both the WinMarks and the Bitblts tests it scored very well. In fact, it rated no. 2 in each of those catagories. MSRP of $249.
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