Magnum 104, Illuminator-16/AT        graphics
Graphics Controllers from Matrox
 
Microbytes Daily News Service
Copyright (c) 1989, McGraw-Hill, Inc.
Matrox Electronic Systems showed its Magnum Series of graphics
controllers at Comdex last week. These controllers offer display
list processing and 8514A graphics.
 
The base model Magnum 104 provides a resolution of 1024 by 768
with 16 colors from a palette of 16.7 million.
 
The company also introduced the Illuminator-16/AT Video
Graphics Board, a high-resolution, real-time frame capture
controller. The AT board captures in real time, digitizing NTSC
and analog RGB to 5 bits/color and displays 32,768 colors. It
generates video in interlaced and noninterlaced formats and has
an addressable resolution of 512 by 512 by 16, expandable to
1024 by 1024 by 16 with a 2-megabyte frame buffer option.
 
Price: Magnum 104, $1395; Illuminator-16/AT, $1595, 2-megabyte
option, $2495.
 
Contact: Matrox Electronic Systems Ltd., 1055 St. Regis Blvd.,
Dorval, Quebec, H9P 2T4 Canada, (514) 685-2630.
 
                              --- Roger K. Adams
 
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