Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/02/18/17:12:02
Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote:
> > > BTW It
> > > isn't possible to run VESA based dos games windowed.
> > Correction: No windows driver bothers to implement it. But is posible.
>
> Yes I too have to still see a driver which has this feature. Isn't it
> strange that AFAIK no video card company has written a driver with this
> capability.
I believe an S3 card does come with drivers that support that...
> Is it because there are problems for the hardware driver to acess VESA due
> to a windoze related "feature" or is it that the video card companies are
> just not interested in adding this functionality?
I think it's the latter. The same reason why very few companies publish Linux
drivers...(they don't think it's a selling point).
> > > Not anymore, see how many users are using Linux. Some PC companies
> > > actually sell PC's with Linux as the only OS preinstalled.
> > I like Linux, but please be objetive, 12 millon of Linux users (most of them are
> > dual boot users) is a minority.
> I agree but please note that the number is increasing quite rapidly. And
> IMHO Linux is seriously challenging M$'s OS dominance.
I think that Linux doesn't even have 5% of the market, I wouldn't call that a
serious challenge (yet). I would like to see it compete, and I do believe that it
will soon (2-3 years), but it's still just a loud drop in the bucket.
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(\/) Rolf Campbell (\/)
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