SM>  *** Glen McNabb wrote in a message to Scott McNay:
SM> GM> It's great that computers of today are so fast and have so
SM> GM> much storage. It saddens me that it also lends to some very
SM> GM> sloppy programming in the terms of size and speed. Whatever
SM> GM> happened to tight fast code? 
SM> Oh, I agree completely.
SM> If your application has no need to do graphics, then it should be written 
SM> so that it will work on ANY adapter, ESPECIALLY if you're a shareware 
SM> author.
I tend to do that. Unless there's a real need for text speed as in
animated-text, I also utilize bios/dos functions for most screen
writes. It greatly simplifies the code.
SM> I used to use either a CGA, for the color text, or a monochrome, for the 
SM> sharper letters.  I have about 3 monochrome monitors just sitting around 
SM> here, that I got for free; I plan to hang on to them in case my VGA 
SM> monitor (which doesn't show any green) dies completely.  I got the VGA in 
SM> order to run Windows without having to put up with the REALLY crappy 
SM> screen of Windows on CGA.
Geeze Scott, how many EGA monitors would you like. I have a mess of them.
They are pretty good for text and windows if you don't do anything too
graphicy....
Glen...
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