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- From: liuyu@kramden.nyu.edu (Liuyu)
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- Subject: Re: IS IBM UK STILL IN THE STONE AGE???
- Message-ID: <liuyu.715220479@kramden>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 00:21:19 GMT
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- ckincy@mcs213c.cs.umr.edu (Charles Kincy) writes:
-
- >>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two years later IBM might drop support on outdated VGA.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Then why is IBM only supporting its own outdated standard video cards?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.
-
- >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.
-
- You still don't get the point. Who's talking about writing drivers for
- every video card? It's about writing drivers for "standard" card! As I said
- before, do you see IBM writing VGA drivers for wordperfect, lotus, windows, and
- others since VGA is IBM's hardware?? Of course not. VGA is standard so is
- Hercules. Companies write their own. If these companies waited IBM to write
- the drivers, they probably wouldn't be around. And they don't expect IBM to
- write it.
- If this is the best IBM can do (only supporting its own stardard), I think
- OS/2's future isn't so bright.
-
-
- >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.
-
- Prove it.
-
- Did Herc also write all the drivers for the tons of software that support Herc?
- IBM refuses to write driver for a standard from a competitor. It's like Lotus
- refuses to write a standard VGA driver for its 123. And it expects IBM to write
- it. It sure doesn't make any sense.
-
- >>Time to support all standards.
-
- >I agree. Herc should support OS/2. They don't.
-
- You got it backward! OS/2 should support all standards.
-