on Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 11:16:10PM +1300, Richard Hector (rhector@paradise.net.nz) wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 05:00:27PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> >
> > The biggest problem I see is that 486s had really minimal video support.
> > 640x480, *maybe* 800x600 if you're lucky. A small color pallet,
> > probably 256 max (8-bit).
>
> I think you're selling the VLB hardware a bit short there - I ran
> windows 3.11 at 1024x768 w 32k colours happily on my 1meg ET4000 W32P
> card, and they and several others (Cirrus Logic, S3 etc) were readily
> available with more RAM. I used it later with X, too, including 2D
> acceleration - though I guess newer releases might not support those
> old chipsets.
Waddya know. I guess it doesn't hurt to try, though I'll stand by my
comments about fixing/repairing the old stuff.
If you're willing to cannibalize heavily, it could work.
Peace.
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What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?
You will not be able to stay home, brother.
You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out.
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