Mail Archives: opendos/1997/03/31/22:34:40
>> 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...
Microsoft is trying to monopolize; Intel is trying to monopolize;
Apple is crying its eyes out because it failed to monopolize.
Eventually somebody is going to figure out that it doesn't pay,
in the long run, to try to monopolize. Perhaps Be will; perhaps
Sun Microsystems; perhaps somebody we've not heard from yet.
It will happen.
By the by, in my opinion it makes no sense at all for an OS to
require anything like video in BIOS. Linux is proof of that.
And developers know this, very, very well. I'm waiting for
a good alternative to NT to show up. When it does, I will
jump on it. And I will be gloriously happy to ditch Intel
hardware specs altogether if that's what it takes.
Jonathan E. Brickman River City Computing, Inc. (913) 232-6663
http://www.cjnetworks.com/~rivercity brickman AT cjnetworks DOT com
This is life. Take it by the whip.
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