Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!ge-dab!ge-rtp!edison!jpl
From: jpl@edison.GE.COM (Pim Little)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: WARNING for MASM 5.1 runme install program
Message-ID: <1491@edison.GE.COM>
Date: 25 Apr 88 14:09:22 GMT
References: <25@necbsd.NEC.COM> <5673@gssc.UUCP>
Organization: General Electric Company, Charlottesville, VA
Lines: 21
Keywords: MSC, Microsoft
Summary: VEGA7 also had problems

In article <5673@gssc.UUCP>, bradd@gssc.UUCP (Brad Davis) writes:
> 
>    When installing Microsoft C 5.1 recently, I was somewhat annoyed to have
> SETUP hang right away.  It worked fine on several AT-klones (including a 386)
> but on my true-blue IBM AT, SETUP.EXE was swift and certain death.
> 
>    It turned out that SETUP was "objecting" to the QuadEGA+ card I was
> using.  The other EGA's that I tried (and other adapters) worked fine.
> 

Apparently the Setup program also objects to older versions of the VEGA7
cards....  We called Microsoft and they will look into this problem.


>    Why do they need to play such sleazy tricks in a glorified batch file?

...... agreed!


			Pim Little
			jpl@edison.GE.COM