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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: 24bit color and OS/2...
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.162104.16135@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 16:21:04 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep15.070008.18490@kth.se> d90-mla@nada.kth.se (Mats Lanner) writes:
- >A solution would be to have a driver that would allow you to select
- >screen depth (like the Monitor control panel on a Macintosh) on the
- >fly, not requiering a reboot. I have been told that it is possible to
- >write such drivers for *that other popular windowing os:ish*, but I
- >haven't seen any.
-
- It's also possible for OS/2. It'd be a function of the driver. I
- believe IBM's 8514/a driver has a setting for low or hi res mode. I
- haven't seen this, myself, but I recall seeing it in one of the white
- paper pamphlets that came with OS/2.
- --
- David Charlap |"there aren't 50,000 things for which it's worth writing
- dic5340@hertz.njit.edu| software; and the computer industry doesn't have enough
- ----------------------+ programmers to create that much good software.
- Therefore, most of it must be worthless" -- Boris Beizer "The Frozen Keyboard"
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