Date: Tue, 7 Feb 1995 10:43:42 +0100 (MET) From: hm@ernie.altona.ppp.net (Hellmuth Michaelis) To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com (FreeBSD Hackers) Subject: Re: sup: Ok, I'm gonna do it. Message-ID: <m0rbmSV-0002OfC@ernie.altona.ppp.net> In-Reply-To: <199502061753.SAA17131@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> from "J Wunsch" at Feb 6, 95 06:53:33 pm
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>From the keyboard of J Wunsch:
> The potentially biggest problem are people with CGA's or EGA's.
It's astonishing how many MDA/Hercules boards are still in use, and some
people even would not change to VGA because of the speed of these.
I've never heard of people using EGA/CGA boards and actually i have never
tested pcvt with a CGA board because i simply could not find one anymore.
The issue is not the price of the hardware. It's just why should someone
throw away a working MDA/Hercules/CGA/EGA board/monitor and buy something
new (and contribute to pollution and hills of waste) if it does what it
should do ?
A good install program should be easy and intuitive to use and it must
run on any hardware. If this program (reliably) detects it's running
on a VGA and switches to some GUI, good - but have support for 25x80
screens in the same program!
Focus on the ease of use, not on fancy colours - that's hard enough!
My 0.02 whatever currency,
hellmuth
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Hellmuth Michaelis hm@altona.ppp.net Hamburg, Europe
(A)bort, (R)etry, (I)nstall BSD ?
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