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Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote:

> > 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.

Just take a look to how different video drivers don't/support 640x480x16 VGA mode and
think again.
I saw 3 behaviors:
1) The best: the mode is fully supported.
2) The idiots solution: you see an snapshot and the program still running.
3) The complete lack: you get a message that this application can't run in a window.

> 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 the problem is just that it is complicated and also not well documented by M$.

> > > 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 guess you are talking about something that will start to be seen in 3 years? because
currently Linux is only challenging MacOS ;-), which isn't a bad number! Linux isn't
ready for the end user ... yet, and we must wait some years to get something ready and
then some years to really start to eat market, a long way to go.

> > Please don't take me wrong (see the headers of this mail and look what OS I'm
>
> No problem, It's great to listen to peoples views :-)

[Is Linux BTW]

> > using right now, also see what programs I contributed to djgpp). But I don't want
> > to see these threads where people becomes fanatic and lose the focus.
>
> I don't know whether this referred to me but just in case..

Wasn't to anybody in particular.

SET

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