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From: fenger@buster.uucp (Steven V Fenger)
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Subject: Re: Whither VEISA?
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Date: 3 Dec 90 21:37:21 GMT
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In article <1990Dec3.054946.28099@beach.csulb.edu> sichermn@beach.csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman) writes:
>In article <1990Dec3.025914.23319@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> fenger@buster.uucp (Steven V Fenger) writes:
>>[My previous acticle about new VESA 1280x1024 standards deleted]
>
> About a month ago I saw a Brady book on Super VGA which proports to include
>information on the VESA standard. Does anyone know if it could have been
>complete and official long enough ago to be in a book currently out ?
>
>Jeff Sicherman

I doubt that the 1280x1024 VESA standards are published yet, they were
just agreed upon.  The book most likely contains the previous VESA
standards for 640x480 (256 colors) and 800x600 (16 colors) screens.
These standards were developed just as VGA clone cards and pushed EGA
clone cards were coming out.  They really didn't define much over IBM's
standard and most card manufactures quickly blew past VESA's limited
definitions to 800x600 (256 colors) and 1024x768 (16 colors, now 256
colors.)

VESA most likely came out with the 1280x1024 (and 1024x768) standards to
beat IBM before IBM could introduced its rumored 8514+ (1280x1024)
standard.

Steven Fenger
fenger@buster.cps.msu.edu