on Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 11:16:10PM +1300, Richard Hector ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ 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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