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From: fenger@buster.uucp (Steven V Fenger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Whither VEISA?
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Date: 3 Dec 90 02:59:14 GMT
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In article <36317@cup.portal.com> schuster@cup.portal.com (Michael Alan Schuster) writes:
>So for months I've been reading that there is a STANDARD for video
>beyond IBM VGA and it's called VEISA. Yet, to date, no software
>package gives you this choice for display adaptors, nobody has
>announced hardware compatibility in a display board (except
>some TSR's from STB), and nobody is offering replacement firmware
>for video boards that meet the specs. What gives?


As I'm sure you know now, its VESA, and yes there still around.  As a
matter of fact, they now have defined a whole slew of standard BIOS calls
for screen resolutions up to 1280x1024.  Several manufactures will be
supporting the VESA bios calls.  Headland (Video 7) comes to mind as one
of the major players that will be introducing VESA cards.

Steven Fenger
fenger@buster.cps.msu.edu