CompuServe Messages

>> I hadn't realized how expensive they were at this time. << I wouldn't hold my breath on this one. Although they are bound to come down in price, the good cards will have _a lot_ of memory on them and memory prices aren't effected by competition nearly as much as the boards and chips are. One of the boards I saw at SIGGRAPH (the ELSA I think) had 4 megs of DRAM and 7 megs of VRAM in order to get the required acceleration. Anything less would ham-string the effect. Now, I hear that there are gonna be some new memory fab plants coming online soon (Q1 96 +/-) but I suspect, because demand will still be quite high w/ increased use of W95/NT, that they will opt for making a bunch of cash by keeping prices high instead of trying to make alot of sales by lowering prices. I hope that I'm wrong. – ej