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Assuming other factors (CPU etc) are similar, possibly the card used a faster bus like VESA local bus or PCI whilst the others were plain ISA?
by fredoralive 1y ago
Assuming other factors (CPU etc) are similar, possibly the card used a faster bus like VESA local bus or PCI whilst the others were plain ISA?
- contingencies 1y agoPretty sure this was ISA era. So yeah, VLB would make sense. While I don't recall it being any longer than regular cards, I just checked and that was only 12mm difference. On the face of it you may have just solved the mystery, but talking to the AI most of the supposedly faster chipsets of the time like S3, Cirrus Logic, ET4000, etc. were definitely on my radar ... so I'm not sure that's the reason, because this system definitely outperformed others. My running theory was that the developer hand-tweaked their graphics code on a similar configuration system. In the absence of any hard info (honestly can't really trust my memory after ~30 years!) I guess that'll remain the guesstimate explanation.