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ckincy@mcs213c.cs.umr.edu (Charles Kincy) 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.
>>So don't give me my hardware is older than yours! It's a standard video card 
>>from another company. IBM is even supporting a less capable CGA card.
>>You get no color in 640*200. Are you saying GUI will work better on CGA?? Maybe
>>two years later IBM might drop support on outdated VGA. I doubt it will happen
>>because it is a IBM standard. IBM only support its own standard.
>>If you haven't seen Windows on a Herc, it is your lack of experience. I've 
>>tried and it worked very well. It was a lot better than those low quality VGA
>>monitors which costed more and had a dot pitch size of your eyeball.
>>You are right no one is selling CGA anymore. But I still see mail orders sell
>>Hercules (maybe you don't see this since you don't live in US).
>>Then why is IBM only supporting its own outdated standard video cards?
>>If I had all the money, I would move on to a better hardware. 

>IBM does not have the resources to write drivers for everyone's 
>video cards.  Apparently, what they have done is to support their own
>products, and leave the responsibility of support to the manufacturers
>of the video cards.  This may have been a mistake, but that's the
>only way IBM could do it.

You still don't get the point. Who's talking about writing drivers for 
every video card? It's about writing drivers for "standard" card! As I said 
before, do you see IBM writing VGA drivers for wordperfect, lotus, windows, and
others since VGA is IBM's hardware?? Of course not. VGA is standard so is 
Hercules. Companies write their own. If these companies waited IBM to write
the drivers, they probably wouldn't be around. And they don't expect IBM to
write it. 
If this is the best IBM can do (only supporting its own stardard), I think
OS/2's future isn't so bright.


>You think Microsoft wrote the Herc driver for Windows?  Heh.  Yeah,
>right.  Herc wrote it.  If Herc refuses to write an OS/2 driver, well
>that's Herc screwing over their own customers, it's not IBM's fault.

Prove it. 

Did Herc also write all the drivers for the tons of software that support Herc?
IBM refuses to write driver for a standard from a competitor. It's like Lotus
refuses to write a standard VGA driver for its 123. And it expects IBM to write
it. It sure doesn't make any sense.

>>Time to support all standards.

>I agree.  Herc should support OS/2.  They don't.

You got it backward! OS/2 should support all standards.