operating systems

From: Uncle Roger <sinasohn_at_ricochet.net>
Date: Fri Jan 2 14:48:51 1998

At 07:40 PM 1/1/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Yeah. EGA is pretty much the same as standard VGA (where windows is
>concerned). The colors (to me) look alot richer and more vibrant on an EGA.
>Maybe they just ditched the CGA/Herc drivers then.
 
3.1 (and 3.11?) had support for Hercules Mono. Which, iirc, wasn't such a
bad standard at 720xsomething (better than std VGA?) Of course, you didn't
get all those pretty colors... (Thank goodness *somebody*'s coloring all
those boring old black and white movies! 8^)


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