I am astonished at what can be discovered by this Digest on behalf of the likes of those possessing a dated 9517/9515 IBM display. Enviously I wonder whether the same might be done for us (very few) benighted possessors of the IBM 8514 and that mysterious but impressive 8514/a Microchannel (I know; totally defunct today) 9-inch x 3-inch card. I have both hooked up to my PS/2 386 25mHz 120mB HD (doublespaced) with 16mB RAM, and continue to delight in what this mere VGA can do for me in Win, WP5.2-for-Win (strangely nobody ever talks about this oddity), Lotus 4.2 spreadsheet program, and that Lotus Organizer v1.1 that cannot look or book beyond 31Dec00 and thus destined to die. What a travesty that Arachne boots for me merely as a bigger version of a basic 386 with VGA, losing all those touted benefits of TOOLBAR etc. I mentioned this a few weeks ago, but all I got was that only King Michael could (easily) include the magic 8514 driver had he a mind to at little cost to bloat. Maybe v6 has it, but I don't count on it because my 8514 constituency must be comparitively microscopic by now. For those who thought that FreeNetters would become incommunicado Jan 1, well, here voluble Howard Eisenberger and I are! And while we are here together with all those Arachnid gurus who are constantly pushing the envelope beyond expectations, maybe there are a few who could spare the time to enlighten (along 9517 lines) the 8514ers trapped among them. Yours, Aye, Stephen. -- Arachne V1.50;s.r.c., NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://home.arachne.cz/
