From: "Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Win 2000 & Djgpp Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 15:27:02 -0500 Organization: Nortel Networks Lines: 35 Message-ID: <38ADAB15.F919FA33@americasm01.nt.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: wmerh0tk.ca.nortel.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; HP-UX B.10.20 9000/785) X-Accept-Language: en To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com 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. -- (\/) Rolf Campbell (\/)