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cn0gr8af@hydra.unm.edu (Student Class Account) writes:

>I would like to use OS/2 in 1280x1024x256colors , and would welcome any and
>all suggestions on how to do this.  I have come up with two options so far:

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>2.  Buy the $1700 TIGA card, and hope for drivers for OS/2 from digital or Appian.
>Appian.

For my two cents, I strongly recommend against buying any equipment against
the prospect of a driver appearing. I have a stack of equipment in the corner
of my lab that is "awaiting drivers; anytime now" for os/2. Some of it
the maker has promised "to be working on a driver" for 6 months. I'm not
holding my breath. I'm not trying to flame here: many video card makers
blame the fact that the Video DDK does not yet exist, which is true.
But such "any day now" promises are trash. A good example is the S3 911 cards
(such as orchid F1280). The drivers have just come out, and still don't 
support seamless mode. In the meantime, the sucessor to the 911 has come
out, the 928, which (suprise) has no os/2 driver (but certainly a windows
driver !). The point being that having bought such a card, you may well find
that it is obsolete by the time you get a driver.
Besides, buying a card with a driver promised rewards sloth. Card makers don't
get money for producing drivers. They get it when you buy the card.
Asking for the os/2 drivers and refusing purchase unless provided with the card
gets the point across.

                                                    [sam]

(Me ? I'm going with XGA-2, which is supported by the software MAKERS of 
BOTH os/2 and WIN 3.x/NT).
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