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Re: Is there a free server software toolkit for for IBM PC compatible computers, I have

2005-09-27, 10:21 pm

> > I just updated my monitor from CGA to EGA, and built in a real ethernet card into my PC.
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> I just wish to add that the EGA is the best monitor I have ever seen. It is capable of 640 by
> 350 resolution, the perfect resolution for computer games. It has two flash screens, so I
> can populate one screen, and when the drawing is done, then just switch to it from the
> other screen. Its beautiful for 80 by 25 text display, and it has at least 256 colors per pixel.
> What more could anyone need? The colors are a lot less bright than modern computers,
> leaving the eye much more relaxed. There are scan lines visible between the 350 vertical
> lines, but those fills are needed for the most comfortable human to eye, eye to human
> relationship. Displaying a pixel is as easy as writing directly into a memory address.
> The computer is under the programmers' power without having to think about compatibilities
> other than IBM PC-s. Everybody has an EGA card. Try it, what's its base memory location
> for each one of its two pages? Take a C programming language, and switch your application
> to EGA mode. Forget Windows.

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