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From: jallen@netxcom.UUCP (John Allen)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Hercules Color Card
Message-ID: <108@netxcom.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 29-Sep-86 14:20:07 EDT
Article-I.D.: netxcom.108
Posted: Mon Sep 29 14:20:07 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 1-Oct-86 01:18:54 EDT
References: <24700143@uiucdcs> <205@csustan.UUCP>
Reply-To: jallen@netxcom.UUCP (John Allen)
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In article <205@csustan.UUCP> guest@csustan.UUCP (Chris Rhodes) writes:
>In article <24700143@uiucdcs> emuroga@uiucdcs.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>>    Has anyone had any experience with the Hercules Color Graphics Card, and
>
>haven't we all?
>
>I've never heard of any incompatability problems.  Actually, since the
>Herc has pretty much become the standard (clone color cards, like mine,
>are called 'hercules compatable' rather than 'ibm cga compatable')
>you couldn't go wrong in getting a hercules or compatable.

Huh?  The Hercules Color Graphics and Monochrome Graphics boards are
two VERY different things.  It's the monochrome graphics board for which
they are known as the standard, not the color graphics board.  Their
color graphics board is "just another clone" of the IBM adapter.

John Allen
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