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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 19:35:52 -0400
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I trawled through the offerings at CompUSA a few weeks ago and found the Trio64
on the STB Powergraph 64 and some Number9 card I can't remember the number of
(perhaps Motion 330?) as well as the Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM. I think the Hercules
Terminator 64 DRAM also uses it. In any case, the chip used was clearly marked
on all the boxes I looked at.

Remember from the updated aux/vga CHANGES file:

	09-Aug-95
	=========
	1) data.c mkfile trio64.c (new) vga.h /lib/vgadb
	   Support for Trio32/Trio64.
	   There's a bug at high resolutions causing a thin white stripe to appear between
	   the right edge of the display and the border.

I'll be trying to fix this when I can get time on the systems we have with the Trio64,
they're all heavily used in Ken's house right now ('high reolution' means > 1024).

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Steve says:
| according to "APPENDIX - What We Use - Last Updated 1-Aug-95"
| at url http://www.ecf.toronto.edu/plan9/clone.html :
| ... 
| There are a number of cards out there using the S3 Trio64 chip, they're cheap
| and perform well; the single-chip solution cuts out a lot of the guesswork in
| getting the card to work. 

Ok, but which models use the S3 Trio64 chip?  The local computer store
was pretty unhelpful; I was hoping to order something that is known to
work.  vgadb lists the "Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM": have people had good
results with that, or is the "Hercules PCI Bus Dynamite" the better
choice?