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- From: ecarroll@maths.tcd.ie (Eddy Carroll)
- Subject: Re: CBM mention on 12/11/92 Computer Chronicles
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.184138.11400@maths.tcd.ie>
- Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
- References: <1hv80bINNjkt@uwm.edu> <1992Dec31.172959.17455@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 18:41:38 GMT
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- jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
- >VGA is 640x480x4. SVGA is 800x600x4. And there does seem to be a standard
- >in SVGA -- Microsoft's SVGA Windows driver supports all SVGA's.
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- This doesn't imply that there's a SVGA standard. if you have access to
- the Windows 3.1 DDK, check the source code for the SVGA driver; it has lots
- of code to determine which of 4 or 5 popular VGA chipsets is in use, and
- even more code to special case all the different idiosyncracies of each
- one. About the only thing they do share in common is that they produce an
- 800x600x4 display using a bitplane rather than chunky layout.
-
- Eddy
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- Eddy Carroll ----* Genuine MUD Wizard | "You haven't lived until you've
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