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# First Report: The QXL Card

First-impressions review of the QXL ISA card, which implements QL hardware on a standard PC expansion card. Covers speed, VGA/SuperVGA video output, parallel operation alongside DOS and Windows 3.1, a 63MB hard disk limit, 2MB memory, and notes several early bugs. An important early evaluation of this major QL upgrade product.