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- From: kaul@bcrvm1.vnet.ibm.com
- Subject: Re: XGA and 640x480x65536
- Sender: @watson.ibm.com
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.204950.22143@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 20:49:50 GMT
- News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.15 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
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- Reply-To: kaul@bcrvm1.vnet.ibm.com
- References: <1992Nov17.170031.12531@ifi.unizh.ch>
- Organization: IBM T. J. Watson Research
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- In <1992Nov17.170031.12531@ifi.unizh.ch> erzberg@ifi.unizh.ch (Martin Erzberger) writes:
- >... The announcement
- >of the XGA-2 card tells something about OS/2 supporting
- >640x480x16 bit colors. Is there yet another driver to be released
- >yet?
-
- No, the drivers for XGA and XGA-2 are the same.
-
- > Maybe this mode is only supported with the XGA-2?
-
- That 64k color mode is available only on the XGA-2. There are some
- internal differences that make support on XGA unfeasible.
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