Re: Monochrome card in OS/2 DOS VDM work okay?

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From: Richard Krehbiel
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 03:22

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In article <1992Dec17.043335.9041@grebyn.com> richk@grebyn.com (Richard Krehbiel) writes:

>   I'd like to get a monochrome (text) card and monitor, and use it for
>   two-screen DOS program debugging.  I think this should work okay, but
>   I thought I'd ask first.

Well, to follow up my own post...

I asked that question because I didn't want to spend money on
something that wouldn't work, but when I was offered an old monitor
and mono graphics card from the office for free, I went ahead and
tried it.

The results are that OS/2 would not boot while the monochrome card was
installed.  It appeared to be working, but instead of clearing the
screen to gray and presenting the desktop, some color bars were drawn
on top of the logo, and shortly thereafter the machine locked, and
C-A-D wouldn't restart it.
-- 
Richard Krehbiel                                 richk@grebyn.com
OS/2 2.0 will do for me until AmigaDOS for the 386 comes along...

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