🚀 go-pugleaf

It is interesting that people bring up the problem of displays that aren't
memory-mapped working with the PC version of NeXTStep.  I think that several
years ago, there were some people making some truecolor boards that were pretty
darn spiffy and were memory-mapped.  I used to work for one of them, namely
Everex.  Their boards were not as fancy as the other truecolor boards, but 
they could do PAL or NTSC framegrabbing and were (by VGA standards) blindingly 
fast!  Hmmm... I wonder if I should get my hands on one of those boards and 
write a driver....

Anyway, my point is that if NeXTStep for the PC starts selling well, then PC
vendors will be able to react and start spitting out products quickly.  They
might even be variants on the VGAs themselves (GOD FORBID!).  Also it might
be worth considering that it would not be such a bad thing to dump a $50-$100
VGA board in favor of a more practical color display card.  It is my hope that
NeXTStep will give PC manufacturers to eventually dump the VGA standard for
good!

--thomas--
poff@vax.sonoma.edu