Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Path: utzoo!utgpu!tj
From: tj@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Terry Jones)
Subject: Re: Is there a Windows driver for XGA?
Message-ID: <1991Jan23.183418.18162@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Organization: UTCS Public Access
References: <854@nih-csl.nih.gov> <91023.125606LAIH@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 91 18:34:18 GMT

In article <91023.125606LAIH@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> Hubert Lai <LAIH@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> writes:
>IBM claims to be shipping OS/2 and Windows 3.0 drivers for XGA.

I had an XGA board in my machine to try for a while. It came with 
drivers for some software AND Windows 3. Afraid I can't tell you what
the other drivers are, I was interested in Windows. I can tell you
for sure that it ISN'T WordPerfect, and I can also tell you
that WordPerfect didn't like it as a VGA adapter. (5.1)

It is pretty nice and pretty quick in Windows. The monitor was quite nice also.
We had it sitting beside a Mac qith a RasterOps 24 bit board and the colour 
was very different from the Mac and EVERYBODY chose the colour of the IBM
display over the Mac. Now this isn't a very scientific nor quantitative
eval, the Mac screen is old etc. etc. On the Mac screen we had a picture
of my kid (cutest kid on earth!) in 24 bit mode and Photoshop dithered
256 colour mode (adapter in 24 bit mode) and on the PC we were using the
Windows 256 colour driver with the same photoshop dithered mac file (as GIF)
using wingif. All three were visible at once. IBM won.

Alas, the adapter is gone now... back to 16 colour VGA.
tj

