fag@norad.UUCP (Florian Gutzwiller) (09/12/88)
VP/ix - PROBLEMS I'm running a 25MHZ 386 CPU with SCO's System V and the VP/ix MS-DOS Multi-User Environment. After having installed the Microsoft Bus Mouse successfully I attempted to install the Ventura Publisher. In the defaults-directory of vpix I could only find a file supporting EGA Monitors and none for the Hercules. Does anybody have such a driver for Hercules ? SCO - THE FUTURE In a newsletter SCO writes providing X-Windows and bit-mapped graphics interface in Version 3. Do they also support VGA drivers? A Tektronix sales engineer told me that running X-Windows requires at least VGA. I hope SCO will deliver a more professional package than the one provided with VP/ix. If not they risk to loose customers to Suns 386I that is able to display four Dos-Windows in VGA resolution. +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Norad Communication Systems fag@norad | | Florian Gutzwiller ....!cernvax!impch!norad | | | | Basel, Switzerland (061) 393-995 | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
john@jetson.UPMA.MD.US (John Owens) (09/14/88)
In article <6@norad.UUCP>, fag@norad.UUCP (Florian Gutzwiller) writes: > In the defaults-directory of vpix I could > only find a file supporting EGA Monitors and none for the > Hercules. Does anybody have such a driver for Hercules ? The file you see in there (romega) is not a driver per se, but an image of a BIOS ROM for an EGA card. VP/ix maps this file into the address space instead of the EGA card's own BIOS because most of the EGA BIOSes don't have some features necessary for VP/ix's screen switching. Hercules cards have no BIOS, so no such file is necessary for VP/ix to use them. VP/ix supports Hercules cards just fine; I have one and have run several Hercules-supporting graphics programs under VP/ix. > Do they also support VGA drivers? SCO supports VGA graphics in 2.3 and later (and maybe 2.2.3) in general. I have no idea what their X-Windows support will look like. -- John Owens john@jetson.UPMA.MD.US uunet!jetson!john +1 301 249 6000 john%jetson.uucp@uunet.uu.net
tucker@urbsdc.Urbana.Gould.COM (09/14/88)
> told me that running X-Windows requires at least VGA. I hope SCO > will deliver a more professional package than the one provided > with VP/ix. If not they risk to loose customers to Suns 386I > that is able to display four Dos-Windows in VGA resolution. That isn't a fair statement. The SCO Xenix products are designed to run on STANDARD IBM-PC hardware. The Sun 386i uses a custom video display card to do the "four Dos-Windows in VGA" trick. Also, X Windows doesn't require VGA, but EGA resolution is very limiting. The IBM-PC RT systems already have X Windows with an EGA display driver, but it is slow! Tim Tucker uiucdcs!urbsdc!tucker