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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: ATI VESA driver supporting 24 BIT COLOR?
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 18:04:24 GMT
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- In article <C0ur67.F7x@rahul.net> bryanw@rahul.net (Bryan Woodworth) writes:
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- >WE obviously come from different backgrounds. Need I say more? I
- >sincerely hope ATI does come through with a DOS driver, but I am not
- >holding my breath on this one. Since Windows *IS* the card's premiere
- >application, I agree that deserves all attention. So we may not see DOS
- >VESA drivers supporting 16bit/24bit until there are 24bit drivers for Win?
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- Problem with so-called "DOS drivers" is that there is no such thing. There
- will have to be Freelance drivers, AutoCAD drivers (which I bet have almost
- as much priority as Windows drivers), Harvard Graphics drivers, Drawperfect
- drivers, Lotus drivers, Freelance drivers, Visicalc drivers, AsEasyAs dri-
- vers, Paradox drivers, CyrillicSharewareFromHell drivers, RBase drivers,
- PC-File drivers -
-
- you get the idea...
-
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