From:	leathm AT solwarra DOT gbrmpa DOT gov DOT au (Leath Muller)
Message-Id:	<199704010212.MAA08144@solwarra.gbrmpa.gov.au>
Subject:	Re: [opendos] Wishlist 2.0
To:	bd733 AT rgfn DOT epcc DOT Edu
Date:	Tue, 1 Apr 1997 12:12:16 +1000 (EST)
Cc:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To:	<9704010125.AA03530@rgfn.epcc.Edu> from "Jason M. Daniels" at Mar 31, 97 06:25:35 pm

> The VESA BIOS Extensions? Dying? I certainly hope not!

Ok, when I say dying, I meant fading... :)  Last I heard Microsoft were
trying to quitely remove the standard to allow Win95 to take over as the
new VBE standard if you know what I mean. In other words, everybody is
supposed to code under Win95/NT using Direct X, and then the Win95 drivers
are supposed to do the hardware stuff for you (much like VBE), and then 
the manufacturers of the graphics/sound/network etc card are supposed to
write the Win95/NT drivers. In other words (again) its Microsoft trying
to monopolise... not a good thing...

Leathal.

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