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- From: ressler@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Mike "IR" Ressler)
- Subject: Re: Orchid Fahrenheit 1280 dirver for OS/2?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.035523.21671@news.Hawaii.Edu>
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- Organization: UH IfA and NASA Infrared Telescope Facility
- References: <Jim_Johnson.05xb@abcd.Houghton.MI.US> <rick.16.712339510@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 03:55:23 GMT
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- In article <rick.16.712339510@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Richard M. Warner) writes:
- >In article <Jim_Johnson.05xb@abcd.Houghton.MI.US> Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson) writes:
- >>From what I just read (Computer Shopper, I think) OS/2 is limited to
- >>standard VGA (640X480), and requires a XGA board to get any higher
- >>resolution. Makes some sense - other than the 8514/A, IBM never released a
- >>VGA with higher resolution. Notice I said it makes some sense, NOT that I
- >>said IBM's attitude is correct.
- >
- >IBM has developed VGA, 8514/A (an extension to VGA), and XGA. It was never
- >a party to the various 'SVGA' groups. But that does not mean that OS/2
- >users are relegated to only those 3 choices for Video. *BUT*
- >development of such drivers are the responsibility of the chipset
- >manufacturers/card vendors, not IBM. Same as with Windows.
-
- Very true. That quote by Computer Shopper made me want to beat the writer
- with sticks. I'm running OS/2 2.0 on a Diamond Speedstar-24 (Tseng ET-4000
- chipset) in 1024x768x256 mode with some beta drivers from the Orchid folks.
- SVGA may not be wrapped with OS/2, but you can certainly do a lot better
- than VGA ...
-
- Mike
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