[comp.graphics] PC graphics....Is it hopeless

houghton@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Ric Houghton) (03/08/88)

     I have been looking at VGA capabilities and wondering why
  such limitations?  Can't we use a better video co-processor
  and get better results?  Or is this one of those IBM things?

       Rather new to this group so I appologize if this has been
  discussed before.

               Thanks

      Ric Houghton
      houghton@silver.bacs.indiana.edu

mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (03/08/88)

>     I have been looking at VGA capabilities and wondering why
>  such limitations?  Can't we use a better video co-processor
>  and get better results?  Or is this one of those IBM things?

       Perhaps you could explain what you mean a bit more fully.
The only obvious thing left out of the VGA is a 480X640X256 color mode.
It has enough memory for this, but somehow it just got left out.
It couldn't use a "better" video coprocessor; it doesn't have one
at all. YOU could use a video coprocessor in your PC; there are lots of
boards out there with them. Of course, most aren't compatible with 
the new and incompatible PS/2's.