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- From: wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith)
- Subject: VESA --> Defined (?) <--
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- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 02:11:45 GMT
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- It seems like the cutting edge of "standards" takes about 2 or 3 years
- to become common place. I've seen a big increase in the use of the
- term VESA within the last few months, and I thought I might quote from
- the User's Guide for my Sigma Legend VGA user's guide (Sept. 1990)...
-
- "Because the Sigma Legend supports the VESA (Video Engineering Standards
- Association) standard for BIOS interface in extended modes, drivers for
- the VESA standard are also supported."
-
- Now unless the VESA standard includes elements of bus construction and
- interface, it seems that VESA and "local bus video" are two different and
- unrelated things. A VESA compatible video card is one thing, while a
- local bus video card is another. I can't say that having an ISA bus
- video card with VESA has been any great thing, especially with a standard
- ET4000 chipset. But maybe VESA becomes more important with the more
- "exotic" co-processed chipsets.
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