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From: jwbirdsa@amc.com (James Birdsall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: VESA SVGA Standard
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.235643.26564@amc.com>
Date: 18 Jun 91 23:56:43 GMT
References: <51370017@hpindda.cup.hp.com>
Reply-To: jwbirdsa@europa.amc.com (James Birdsall)
Organization: Applied Microsystems, Redmond, WA
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In article <51370017@hpindda.cup.hp.com> tozz@hpindda.cup.hp.com (Bob Tausworthe) writes:
>Wouldn't it be nice if application programmers wrote their software
>to use this standard and then all the card companies had to do was
>build one VESA driver? Wow!

   No offense, but cause and effect are reversed here. Wouldn't it be nice
if the card companies had built their cards to use this standard, and then
all the programmers have to do is write for one interface, instead of
wasting thousands of man-hours writing drivers for every card they could
get docs for?

   Of course, there wasn't a need for a standard until SVGA started to
become popular, at which point it was already too late... But still, it's
hardly the application programmers' fault that the cards are all different!
:)

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