3 Dec
2005
3 Dec
'05
4:43 p.m.
On 03/12/05, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 12/3/2005 at 1:33 AM Jim Leonard wrote:
I would guess that there must be standard place for windows to ask
"What sort of device are you" for plug and play. The rest would up to
the driver. I quite often find windows can at least identify the type
of device wether or not it actually works.
Dan
Nope. CGA was jettisoned in Windows 3.1 although
you could copy over the
driver from 3.0 and get it working (but I don't recommend it...
Grazingly OT: Is there any formal Windows standard that requires a video
adapter to have a BIOS extension at C000:0? If one were present, say, at
E000:0--or completely absent, would XP still work with it?
--Chuck