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From: philba@microsoft.UUCP (Phil Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Non-standard VGA mode (640x480 256
Message-ID: <5544@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 22 Apr 89 06:52:52 GMT
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In article <45900226@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
[this is a discussion of 8514A support]
>Microsoft Windows is sometime in the future (or is it Real Soon Now)
>supposed to support it. Since they actually got they specs, it
>probably will be no slower than Windows generally (which is slow,
>but not as slow as something written by IBM)_.
>

Sorry, wrong. Windows 286 has supported the 8514A since July 88.  
This is in Versions 2.10 and 2.11.  Windows 386 Ver 2.11 also
supports the 8514A.  2.11 is the current version.

There are a large number of applications that will work with 
MS Windows on the 8514A.  



Phil Barrett
Microsoft Corp