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echo: os2prog
to: Jason Hendriks
from: Jeff Patten
date: 1995-10-09 00:51:16
subject: ATI OS/2

JH> I am constantly hearing people refer to the speed of a video
 JH> card by how much RAM it has.  Someone correct if I'm wrong,
 JH> but isn't this false?  The amount of RAM on a video card
 JH> controls only it's maximum resolution and colour
 JH> combinations; not how fast it updates the screen.

   Upgrading some Cirrus Logic cards from one meg to two meg will allow the
video chip to use memory interleaving to get better performance.  I haven't
heard of any other mfr with this tweak, though it could be they just don't
say anything about it.

Jeff

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