🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: comp.os.os2
Article #549

Re: About this Hercules business (Re: IS IBM UK STILL IN THE STONE AGE???)

#549
From: Luc Bauwens
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 15:52
24 lines
1648 bytes
In article <liuyu.715301119@kramden> liuyu@kramden.nyu.edu (Liuyu) writes:
>
>>About this Hercules business:
>
>Why don't you also include CGA and EGA? Are you implying GUI on CGA is
>much better? If IBM wanted to drop support on low-res video, they should
>have drop them all. 

What's the logic of that statement?  Just because neither Hercules
nor CGA makes much sense, you seem to think that because they
maintain support for CGA, then they should also have supported
Hercules?

If there are two mistakes, say A and B, if they make mistake B,
you say they should have made mistake A too?

At least, they pulled support for one obsolete mode.

(As for EGA, there are still quite a few apps around that
run in EGA mode.  I don't know whether that means that drivers
are needed.  But I dson't think you will find anything around
that runs in Hercules and not in some other mode too....)

Luc B
Technical Details
Message-ID: <92Sep01.155213.32382@acs.ucalgary.ca>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!ubc-cs!unixg.ubc.ca!kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca!acs.ucalgary.ca!bauwens
References: <1992Aug31.174717.16088@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <92Aug31.200426.22661@acs.ucalgary.ca> <liuyu.715301119@kramden>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.programmer,comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!ubc-cs!unixg.ubc.ca!kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca!acs.ucalgary.ca!bauwens
From: bauwens@acs.ucalgary.ca (Luc Bauwens)
Subject: Re: About this Hercules business (Re: IS IBM UK STILL IN THE STONE AGE???)
Sender: news@acs.ucalgary.ca (USENET News System)
Message-ID: <92Sep01.155213.32382@acs.ucalgary.ca>
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 92 15:52:13 GMT
References: <1992Aug31.174717.16088@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <92Aug31.200426.22661@acs.ucalgary.ca> <liuyu.715301119@kramden>
Nntp-Posting-Host: acs5.acs.ucalgary.ca
Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta
Lines: 25