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- From: shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr)
- Subject: No video back switching rumor (was: VESA Support)
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OH
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:13:58 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.191358.27285@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- References: <Dec.20.12.03.13.1992.7156@remus.rutgers.edu> <1992Dec20.225018.19294@netcom.com>
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- In article <1992Dec20.225018.19294@netcom.com> samiam@netcom.com (Scott Moore) writes:
- }glenw@remus.rutgers.edu (Glenn T. Wasserman) writes:
- }>Windows 3.1 DOES come with a built-in VESA driver,doesn't it? 800x600x16.
- }I beleive you are talking about the "general card" drivers for win and os/2.
- }These drivers use the VESA standard mode set call number for 800x600x16
- }[require no bank switching].
-
- }On a side note, IBM did include a VGA standard section to allow access to
- }more than 64 kb video memory, and thus would have solved many of the driver
- }problems we see today. It was ingnored by clone makers, and thus was never
- }used, proving, I guess, that not all problems can be blamed on IBM :)
-
- I've heard, but never been able to confirm that the Diamond SpeedStar has
- a mode which permits the entire 1MB of video memory to addressed without
- bank switching. 'Course you'd need a 386/486 in extended mode, but that's
- OK with us, right?
-
- Sorry if this is not the right newsgroup, but I couldn't find either
- comp.os.os2.rumor or alt.video.patience.strained at my site.
-
- 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
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