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Date:      Fri, 9 Feb 1996 16:08:25 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        mikebo@tellabs.com
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG, mikebo@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PCI video recommendations?
Message-ID:  <199602090538.QAA20760@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <9602090408.AA13476@tellabk.tellabs.com> from "mikebo@tellabs.com" at Feb 8, 96 10:08:24 pm

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mikebo@tellabs.com stands accused of saying:
> 
> The system I'm building is:
> Intel Endevour MB w/256K (possibly 512K) pipeline-burst module
> 2 2x32 (8MB) 72-pin SIMMs (16 MB total)

Not enough memory.

> Adaptec 2940 (?) PCI SCSI card
> Some decent accelerated PCI video card
> 
> I've been counciled to stay away from Matrox Millenium and Trident, as
> well as the Diamond Stealth64 cards... comments? Thanks!

Anything S3 based will serve you well; I can heartily recommend the 
Number Nine cards, particularly the 9FX Motion 771, but other similar
models will work just fine.

> Michael Borowiec   -   mikebo@tellabs.com   -   Tellabs Operations Inc.

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