From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 7 02:03:12 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id CAA20835 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 7 Feb 1995 02:03:12 -0800 Received: from casparc.ppp.net (casparc.ppp.net [194.64.12.35]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id CAA20826 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 1995 02:02:58 -0800 Received: from ernie by casparc.ppp.net with uucp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0rbmkD-000HzbC; Tue, 7 Feb 95 11:02 MET Received: by ernie.altona.ppp.net (Smail3.1.29.0 #15) id m0rbmSV-0002OfC; Tue, 7 Feb 95 10:43 WET Message-Id: From: hm@ernie.altona.ppp.net (Hellmuth Michaelis) Subject: Re: sup: Ok, I'm gonna do it. To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com (FreeBSD Hackers) Date: Tue, 7 Feb 1995 10:43:42 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <199502061753.SAA17131@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> from "J Wunsch" at Feb 6, 95 06:53:33 pm Reply-To: hm@ernie.altona.ppp.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1130 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >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 -- Hellmuth Michaelis hm@altona.ppp.net Hamburg, Europe (A)bort, (R)etry, (I)nstall BSD ?