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- From: shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr)
- Subject: Re: Why not standard VESA
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OH
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:59:45 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.185945.26119@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- References: <1992Dec19.070020.4266@netcom.com> <92354.095839BJT105@psuvm.psu.edu> <1992Dec21.201140.11235@unlv.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec21.201140.11235@unlv.edu> slumos@unlv.edu (Steve Lumos) writes:
- >In article <92354.095839BJT105@psuvm.psu.edu> <BJT105@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
- >>A couple facts about the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA):
-
- >>1. The chairman is Scott Vouri (sp?), who is also president (and chief
- >> programmer) of Binar Graphics -- the company which is producing the
- >> 32-bit SVGA OS/2 drivers under contract. (also the people who produced
- >> the Winspeed drivers for window ... they get around!)
- >> If it were possible to utilize the real-mode VESA interface to write OS/2
- >> drivers, it would have been done.
- >
- >Does he have a mail address that we can write to and tell him how much
- >the Tseng 4000 drivers SUCK? They may do fast Windoze, but there OS/2
- >stuff is a DOG.
-
- Hold on! Please! I, too, am exasperated over the performance of the
- ET4000 drivers, but let us not hurry to alienate one of the people most
- likely to be able to help us! The Winspeed ET4000 drivers represent a
- substantial improvement over the stock drivers from Tseng. Thus, we
- can hope that speedups are forthcoming or will become available.
-
- I'm a little surprised since I have been holding out some hope that Binar
- and Diamond Computer Systems (since I have a SpeedStar) would be able to
- help me. To find that these incredibly slow drivers come from Binar
- and look sick compared to the Binar-written, Diamond-tweaked Windows
- "Turbo" drivers is disquieting, but the facts aren't all in, yet.
- (Actually, Scott, I think PM performance is fair -- better than any
- 16-bit driver I tried -- and windowed VIO and VDM sessions are unaccept-
- ably slow). Perhaps this first cut will be improved upon in OS/2 V2.1
- -- I hope so, these drivers are marginal for me, but the alternatives
- are too feature poor.
-
- Worse, maybe Scott will tell us that the present speed cannot be improved
- on -- difficult to believe at this point, having compared the stock
- ET4000 windows drivers with the Diamond Turbo drivers, but possible.
- In this case, we need to be ditch ET4000 SVGA's in favor of something
- faster or we need to ditch OS/2 as badly done.
-
- Another bad alternative is for Scott to tell us to get lost. In which
- case... well, no need to get ugly if there's no need to get ugly :-).
-
- Larry
- --
- Larry A. Shurr (las@cbnmva.att.com) speaking only for myself.
- Norman, listen carefully. I am lying. Are you sure your circuits are
- registering? Your ears are green. Logic is a little bird singing in a
- meadow. Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell bad! - Mr. Spock
-