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- Subject: Re: IS IBM UK STILL IN THE STONE AGE???
- Message-ID: <1992Aug29.084150.10189@actrix.gen.nz>
- From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 08:41:50 GMT
- Sender: Steve.Withers@actrix.gen.nz (Steve Withers)
- References: <1992Aug28.180020.17109@microsoft.com> <1992Aug28.230812.8592@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> <liuyu.715061158@kramden>
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- In article <liuyu.715061158@kramden> liuyu@kramden.nyu.edu (Liuyu) writes:
- >
- > I don't think it's silly. Not everyone knows IBM doesn't support the standard
- > mono graphics Hercules card when almost every other software companies write
- > their own Herc driver for their software. IBM expects Hercules to write it.
- > Does IBM write VGA driver for other software, ie wordperfect, lotus, Windows,
- > and bunch of others? Does these companies expect IBM to write drivers for them
- > since it's IBM's hardware? Of course not. VGA is a standard so is Hercules.
- > I don't think IBM wanted to support a standard from other vendors.
- > I think you should check the facts out first.
-
- Certainly no one in New Zealand has been selling brand new systems with Herc
- mono for a while now. GUI's don't work terribly well on Herc monitors. I have
- never seen Windows on a herc monitor..........
-
- OS/2 will work just fine on the computer the herc monitor/card are used with -
- just get a CGA/EGA/VGA setup and away you go! No one sells CGA anymore,
- either - or EGA for that matter. Herc predates both.......
-
- Time to move on.
-
- Steve
-
- --
- Steve Withers - Wellington, New Zealand | If you don't vote for MMP on
- Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz | September 19, 1992, then you
- withers_s@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz | must like things the way they
- **** Happy user of OS/2 v2!! **** | are.....can I live with YOU?
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