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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Os/2's lack of decent svg
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.105935.14859@actrix.gen.nz>
- From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 10:59:35 GMT
- Sender: Steve.Withers@actrix.gen.nz (Steve Withers)
- References: <714642863.F00005@csource.oz.au>
- Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
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- In article <714642863.F00005@csource.oz.au> Ian.Munro@f341.n632.z3.fidonet.org (Ian Munro) writes:
- > GG>card. Now this card has worked with EVERY VGA APP I've every tried
- > GG>(including Windows), but not OS/2. IBM considers this Orchids problem.
- > GG>I must assume that when IBM states OS/2 is VGA compatible they mean it
- > GG>works with an IBM made VGA card (period).
- >
- > C'mon, buddy, who do you imagine established the VGA standard?
- >
- > GG>IBM considers it Orchid's problem, Orchid doesn't even use that chip any
- >
- > Ditto
- >
- > GG>So far I've found DOS far more stable (for example I don't have to
- > GG>reboot the machine ever time I try to get a full screen DOS session
- > GG>in DOS <grin>) and far friendlier.
- >
- > Surely you are just restating the same video problem? ___
-
- If GG has the Tseng ET4000 problem - which is what it sounds like - there is a
- fix for this and it takes about.....oohhhhh.....10 seconds to put on.
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- TSENGFIX.ZIP
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- Use it! It works.
-
- 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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