Subject: Re: Installation troubles, more info
To: Ty Sarna <tsarna@endicor.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/12/1997 10:26:15
> In article <Pine.SGI.3.96.970911180945.7231M-100000@irony.anim.dreamworks.com> you write:
> > > I think MGA is a different (later) thing, though.
> > >
> > MGA was the original IBM 'Monochome Graphics Adapator', which
> > was text only. Hercules was a later third party card that
> > supported the MGA text functionality, plus added graphics modes.
>
> I thought the text-only thing was called MDA (Monochrome Display
> Adaptor). If it was text-only, what would the G stand for, if not
> Graphics? And I though MGA *was* Hercules, or at least was the name the
> Herc-cloners came up with to described their cards without using the
> H-word.
"D'oh!" (Sorry, caffine withdrawal symptoms :)