VGA card - 8 bit?

From: Russ Blakeman <russ_at_rbcs.8m.com>
Date: Mon Jan 8 04:03:10 2001

There are 8 bit cards as well as ones that are 16 in design that can either
be set to 8 or can detect 8/16 when installed in an 8 bit slot. My first
Trident based VGA card was like that.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
[mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Don Maslin
Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 11:19 PM
To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
Subject: VGA card - 8 bit?



I guess that this is a rather naive question, but is there any such
thing as an 8-bit VGA card? If not, is the 16-bits necessary or is
it just because it came about after 16-bit ISA came along with the
AT class computers?
                                                 - don
Received on Mon Jan 08 2001 - 04:03:10 GMT