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- From: cdfannin@csws19.ic.sunysb.edu (Chris D Fanning)
- Subject: Re: IS IBM UK STILL IN THE STONE AGE???
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.182531.7221@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 18:25:31 GMT
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- In article <liuyu.715296024@kramden> liuyu@kramden.nyu.edu (Liuyu) writes:
- >cdfannin@csws19.ic.sunysb.edu (Chris D Fanning) writes:
- >> [stuff deleted]
- > [more stuff deleted]
- >Does Microsoft expect IBM to write VGA drivers for Windows? Does Geoworks
- >expect IBM to write VGA drivers for its software? Does any other OS's expect
- >IBM to write VGA drivers? VGA and Herc are standards. All the information
- >about VGA and Hercules are available.
- >You write YOUR own standard VGA & Herc drivers! What make you think a
- >OS from IBM is so special that they don't have to write "standard" drivers? They
- >wrote for their own standards but not competitor's.
- >If you don't consider Hercules a standard, I give up.
- >And I agree there is no standard SVGA hardware. So companies write their own
- >SVGA drivers as they should.
- >If you still don't get the point, here it is again.
- >Like many other software companies, IBM should have written drivers for ALL
- >"STANDARD" (VGA,EGA,CGA, and Herc) video cards. But they only chose their
- >"standard". Enough said!
-
- Yes, I do understand your point. There are basic drivers out there that
- should be written by the software manufacturer... The hard question is
- whether or not OS/2 is useable with such a setup, and who should write
- the driver. In this case, Hercules would only be benefitting Taiwanese
- Herc clone manufacturers. IBM, on the other hand might sell a few more
- copies of OS/2... but, at what cost? Would the amount of money IBM pours
- into this be returned faster than if they had their developers working
- on something else? Resources were a major problem with developing OS/2 2.0.
- Would IBM sell more copies by writing drivers for [their] SCSI cards,
- (a major problem with OS/2 1.x) or a Herc display? Standard or not, most
- people that have machines that can run OS/2 are probably relatively new, and
- have VGA (minimum) not Herc.
-
- Delaying OS/2 2.0 any more than it already had been may very well have killed
- it.
-
- As for OS/2 being useable on a Herc display... I can't say. I find it hard
- to work with on a standard VGA.
-
- Chris
-