CompuServe Messages

I'm amazed that you were actually able to get a Dell tech support person to talk to you on a Sunday. Plus, you got someone who was willing to discuss an unreleased product. That's even more incredible! I'll try to find someone who can tell me a model number for it. Regarding your question re display cards being bus-limited. You are exactly correct. As long as the hard disk is writing to display memory uncompressed data through the bus (be it EISA or ISA), the speed of the VGA card is not the limiting factor. This is why HiColor animation is going to be such a bitch in ISA bus machines, and not very easy for 640×480 in EISA machines either. I've heard that one of Dell's primary goals with their new machine was to allow 1280×1024 Animator Pro animation for the CAD market. They are trying very hard to steal Compaq's thunder in the Intel workstation market. – G