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From: jxh@cup.portal.com (Jim - Hickstein)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Is there an 8514A driver for Win386?
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Date: 8 Apr 89 03:42:29 GMT
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An update:

Typically for Microsoft, the MS 8514A driver for Windows and Win/386
REQUIRES the OPTIONAL memory expansion (the one that makes it 8 bits deep).
I wish I could say this were unbelievable.

Microsoft:  Don't you guys ever buy or consider or test with anything but the
maximum configuration you can get your hands on?  Why does OS/2 REQUIRE FOUR
MEGABYTES OF RAM to avoid swapping when one types something?  (God help me
when I try to get LanMan Server and SQL Server running.  Together.)  Didn't
they tell you that the 8-bit-deep 8514A has an OPTIONAL, EXTRA-COST memory
board attached to it?  Do you own any 8088 machines?  (Granted, I bought an
8086 way back when...)  Do you have a BUDGET?  Do you have trouble thinking
up more ways to SPEND MY MONEY?

Come on, you guys, wake up!

-A personal attack from:
Jim Hickstein
VSAT Systems, Inc.
San Jose, CA
jxh@cup.portal.com
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Disclaimer: Yes, I do represent my employer, actually.  You think I'd do
this on my own time?