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@Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2003 19:07:46 -0500
Subject: Re: What does VESA mean & why doesn't it ever work? [IMP copy]
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In , on 11/02/03 
   at 04:04 PM, "Kevin McCoy"  typed:

>The VESA is a hangover from MSDOS and early windoze days.  It defines a
>bunch of low-res graphics and text modes supported by monitors of the
>day. I think it tops out at something like 800x600x16. Horizontal and
>vertical sweep speeds were ridiculously low by today's standards. Can you
>spell M-I-G-R-A-N-E?

How quickly we forget CGA which was something even less than 600*600 and
was 16 color.  I think VESA is 256 color.  VESA was late DOS days. 
 
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