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- From: rm3@ornl.gov (MCBROOM R C)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: OS2 doesn't support Hercules? SYS 0355?? what is it?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.144646.4048@ornl.gov>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 14:46:46 GMT
- References: <liuyu.714771225@kramden>
- Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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- In article <liuyu.714771225@kramden> liuyu@kramden.nyu.edu (Liuyu) writes:
- >Before I started to bash OS/2, does OS/2 support Hercules?
- >I just installed this thing last night. In the middle of installation, it got
- >stuck and gave me SYS0355 which I think is about video. Does OS2 auto detect
- >video cards like other programs? I already tried replacing os2krnl, ibm1s506,
- >os2dasd. I installed it THREE times. Still no luck. HELP!!!
- >I have AMD 386/40, 4meg ram, 70 meg MFM HD, Hercules card and monitor, two
- >floppy drives (1.44 being a:), AMI BIOS (12/12/91).
- >
- No OS/2 does not support Hercules. This story got a lot of play during
- the round of beta's, but no one (either IBM, Hercules, or other) has
- apparently seen a profit in supporting the card. The explosion in video
- display modes and implementations is a blessing and a curse for users and
- developers alike! Something has to be done to improve the availability
- and stability of the display drivers. Something like a univid.dll that
- would require only a minimum of a board specific interface.
-
- IBM you are only as good as the view on the screen. Please make it easy
- for the card makers to give you a beautiful face!
-
-
- Robert McBroom internet: rm3@ornl.gov
-