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[Scott Russell <scottrus AT ipass.net>]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 06:05:32PM -0500, Steven Champeon wrote:
> on Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 08:18:38PM -0500, Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney 
> wrote:
> > I'm still getting a PS2 *grin*
> 
> I borrowed a friend's PS/2 back in the late eighties. They sucked. ;)
> 
Maybe it's just me, but I find if you take a whole bunch of things that 
'sucked', such
as PS/2 with MCA slots, OS/2 Warp, and 16Mb/s Token Ring you ended up with a
Now now, the PS/2 Mod 77 (9577) simply rocked. It was a 486DX50 (not DX2) and 
it flew. 
IRQ / IO conflicts were non-existent thanks to it's MCA expansion bus and it 
had XGA
graphics capable of 1600x1200 @ 60Hz 

The XGA2 MCA adapter was a fully programmable chip that would run any 
resolution or refresh 
as long as the chips pipeline could handle the bandwidth. You could even 
throw non-standard
VESA modes at it and it would run.

Stick two or more XGA2 adapters into the box and now you could run MXGA. MXGA 
allowed for
multiple monitors with a single desktop under Windows 3.1 and OS/2 2.2.1 or 
later. (This
is the same feature MS finally got around to putting in place for Windows 98.)

Yes, I used to support these too.

-- Scott