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In article <liuyu.715296024@kramden> liuyu@kramden.nyu.edu (Liuyu) writes:
>cdfannin@csws19.ic.sunysb.edu (Chris D Fanning) writes:
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>Does Microsoft expect IBM to write VGA drivers for Windows? Does Geoworks
>expect IBM to write VGA drivers for its software? Does any other OS's expect
>IBM to write VGA drivers? VGA and Herc are standards. All the information 
>about VGA and Hercules are available.
>You write YOUR own standard VGA & Herc drivers! What make you think a
>OS from IBM is so special that they don't have to write "standard" drivers? They
>wrote for their own standards but not competitor's.
>If you don't consider Hercules a standard, I give up.
>And I agree there is no standard SVGA hardware. So companies write their own
>SVGA drivers as they should.
>If you still don't get the point, here it is again.
>Like many other software companies, IBM should have written drivers for ALL
>"STANDARD" (VGA,EGA,CGA, and Herc) video cards. But they only chose their 
>"standard". Enough said!

Yes, I do understand your point.  There are basic drivers out there that
should be written by the software manufacturer...  The hard question is
whether or not OS/2 is useable with such a setup, and who should write
the driver.  In this case, Hercules would only be benefitting Taiwanese
Herc clone manufacturers.  IBM, on the other hand might sell a few more
copies of OS/2... but, at what cost?  Would the amount of money IBM pours
into this be returned faster than if they had their developers working
on something else?  Resources were a major problem with developing OS/2 2.0.
Would IBM sell more copies by writing drivers for [their] SCSI cards,
(a major problem with OS/2 1.x) or a Herc display?  Standard or not, most
people that have machines that can run OS/2 are probably relatively new, and
have VGA (minimum) not Herc.

Delaying OS/2 2.0 any more than it already had been may very well have killed
it.

As for OS/2 being useable on a Herc display... I can't say.  I find it hard
to work with on a standard VGA.

Chris