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- From: ckincy@mcs213c.cs.umr.edu (Charles Kincy)
- Subject: Re: IS IBM UK STILL IN THE STONE AGE???
- References: <liuyu.715061158@kramden> <1992Aug29.084150.10189@actrix.gen.nz> <liuyu.715128721@kramden>
- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 20:02:46 GMT
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- >Oh yeah. It is very easy to blame old hardwares. But do you see other big
- >companies not supporting for Herc? All major companies support Herc except IBM.
- >So don't give me my hardware is older than yours! It's a standard video card
- >from another company. IBM is even supporting a less capable CGA card.
- >You get no color in 640*200. Are you saying GUI will work better on CGA?? Maybe
- >two years later IBM might drop support on outdated VGA. I doubt it will happen
- >because it is a IBM standard. IBM only support its own standard.
- >If you haven't seen Windows on a Herc, it is your lack of experience. I've
- >tried and it worked very well. It was a lot better than those low quality VGA
- >monitors which costed more and had a dot pitch size of your eyeball.
- >You are right no one is selling CGA anymore. But I still see mail orders sell
- >Hercules (maybe you don't see this since you don't live in US).
- >Then why is IBM only supporting its own outdated standard video cards?
- >If I had all the money, I would move on to a better hardware.
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- IBM does not have the resources to write drivers for everyone's
- video cards. Apparently, what they have done is to support their own
- products, and leave the responsibility of support to the manufacturers
- of the video cards. This may have been a mistake, but that's the
- only way IBM could do it.
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- You think Microsoft wrote the Herc driver for Windows? Heh. Yeah,
- right. Herc wrote it. If Herc refuses to write an OS/2 driver, well
- that's Herc screwing over their own customers, it's not IBM's fault.
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- >Time to support all standards.
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- I agree. Herc should support OS/2. They don't.
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