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In article <816978470snz@siberia.demon.co.uk>
           philip@siberia.demon.co.uk "Philip McNab" writes:

>I have a unbranded laptop PC (which I *think* is identical to a Sanyo
>NB386), supplied with minimal documentation.  I want to find out what
>sort of video card it has, so that I can play with different text modes
>for use with the Textwin replacement for KA9Q NOS.
>
>The only utility I have is an old version of PC tools, which tells me 
>only that the card is a 'VGA', but I thnk I need to know what make it 
>is to figure out more about the non-standard text modes (e.g 80X50, 
>132*43)
>
If it is VGA as opposed to SVGA or EVGA then it will only support
VGA modes which are the same for all cards. These are 80 x 43 and
80 x 50 for text modes.

>Does anyone know of either
>
>a) a shareware/freeeware/PD utility that does this sort of 
>   identification work
>
>or
>
>b) the BIOS functions/memory addresses that I could use to determine
>   this?  I'm a reasonably skilled C programmer, with Turbo C v2.

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