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Please note the follow up.

In article <liuyu.715128721@kramden> liuyu@kramden.nyu.edu (Liuyu) writes:
>Oh yeah. It is very easy to blame old hardwares. But do you see other big 
>companies not supporting for Herc? All major companies support Herc except IBM.

First let me say that I agree with you, that IBM's OS/2 2.0 should
support Hercules.  LAN servers, for example, don't really need color
monitors.

However, in my original reply I did point out that the remedy is as
little as $25 away, which is not likely to break anyone's bank
account.

Also, I disagree with your assertion.  Most games, including those
from the major players, do not support Hercules (increasingly VGA is
the minimum, never mind CGA or EGA).  Windows NT probably will not
support Hercules (it certainly isn't on the SDK compatibility list).
A number of mainstream applications from major vendors do not support
Hercules.

How do I know?  Because up until about 18 months ago I was using
Hercules, and it was limiting.  Lots of programs I wanted to run
didn't.  Oh, Windows does support Hercules, but rather clumsily.  One
has to use EGA screen fonts, and the results are often less than
satisfactory.  I ran it, but I wasn't thrilled with it.  Icons look
stretched out; letters look squished.

>ps, I think Hercules came after CGA.

It did, and it was a brilliant hack.

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