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From: goer@sophist.uucp (Richard Goerwitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Atypical VGA question.
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Date: 12 Jul 89 15:13:16 GMT
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In article <1546@bucket.UUCP> leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) writes:
>
>To the best of my knowledge, *no one* other than Hercules
>supports RAMFont. Pity. 
>
>But don't give up hope. Hercules makes a VGA card....
>It doesn't support the Hercules mono or color card graphics, but
>it *does* come with a program that lets you toggle between it and
>your old Hercules card. The active card runs fine and doesn't
>have any problems. 

This may sound a bit funny, but is *Hercules* Hercules compatible?
In other words, does their VGA provide backwards compatibility with
their own latest version of the Herc card (the Plus)?

Flame:  When will some smart company realize that the entire world
does not speak English (or maybe a W. European language), and de-
sign its operating systems so that they don't have to be hacked for
all those millions and millions of people whose alphabets go "back-
wards" or which have extensive diacritics?  There are huge untapped
markes in the Middle East, for instance.  The poor Herc Plus was a
fix to help offer our brain-damaged English and W.-European only
machines do something new and interesting....

                                       -Richard L. Goerwitz
                                       goer@sophist.uchicago.edu
                                       rutgers!oddjob!gide!sophist!goer