From: guyd@austin.ibm.com (Guy Dawson)
Subject: Re: Hercules Graphite?
Originator: guyd@pal500.austin.ibm.com
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In article <C5JBKF.9B8@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
> In article <1993Apr06.185638.12139@metrics.com> tomh@metrics.com (Tom Haapanen) writes:
> 
> >Has anyone used a Hercules Graphite adapter?  It looks good on paper, and
> >Steve Gibson gave it a very good review in Infoworld.  I'd love to get a
> >real-world impression, though -- how is the speed?  Drivers?  Support?
> 
> The PC World reviewers found out that the Herc people had hard-coded
                                            ^^^^

I think it was the IIT people who make the chip the card is based on who hard-coded
the string.

One of the weeklies looked into this an came to the conclusion that the IIT chip
was still pretty fast.

> Winbench text into the driver. Clever, no? In any case, the Winbench
> results are pretty much inflated.
> 
> When and if you get one send me mail.. I might buy that ATI GU+ off
> you.. 9-)
> 
> 
> 
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