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@Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 22:29:03 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: What does VESA mean & why doesn't it ever work? [IMP copy]
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--- Davey Brain  wrote:
> 
> One other question, why is it that a video driver
> for OS/2 can be so 
> small as to easily fit on a floppy with loads of
> room to spare and the 
> video driver for Win9X is a single packed exe file
> of about 6-7 megs? 
> This requires either wasting an entire CD-R for a 7
> meg file, chopping 
> up the exe with a program that can do that, or
> hooking up to a network 
> to copy the file over (which isn't possible at the
> moment because this 
> Compaq Deskpro has a network card that doesn't have
> a driver available 
> in Win9X and net card driver is 3+ megs).  Even
> Scitech Snap (which 
> supports over 100 cards) isn't much bigger than this
> single Wincrap 
> driver.  Oh, going online in Win9X to get drivers is
> not an option to 
> me.  It's installed on a 500 meg partition and it
> probably doesn't have 
> room for Norton 2003 and 100,000+ virus
> definitions...

Hey, it's windows, what's more to say?
If you have a copy of PKzip you can zip or copy a
large file across multiple floppies very easily, then
back to a hard drive. The DOS version runs really fast
on OS/2 dos session.
 
> 
> Thanks everyone who replied.  I'm trying to get a
> lively discussion 
> going, but it doesn't seem to be happening ;)

Can't change the past, will have to see what comes
next! Maybe your rant will get something going
somewhere. :-)

Regards,
Franklin


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