On 24 Jun 99 at 0:00, Automatic digest processor wrote:
>>On 1999-06-21 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>> >Also, EGA monitors and cards are really quite rare these days;
>> >there are probably 40 CGAs for every EGA found.
>>
>>I don't get this. I have heard about EGA being rare from several different
>>sources. Why? Did most people jump right from CGA to VGA? I have an EGA
>>setup on my 286 and I also have a spare IBM EGA monitor that I got with my
>>IBM XT with CGA card.
I think the reason is that VGA emerged soon after EGA appeared and the market
simply shifted to this format before EGA had established itself over CGA. I
think this is similar to what happened with the ESDI HD interface. ESDI
incorporated some of the features of IDE interface, but the IDE interface
emerged before ESDI had supplanted the MFM/RLL interface that was dominant at
the time. I suspect that it is a little more complicated than this, but this
is the basic scenario.
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
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