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Subject:	Re: Windows 3.1 install on CGA machine.
From:	David Gillett <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	PCSOFT - Personal Computer software discussion list <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Mon, 21 Dec 1998 13:54:03 -0800
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On 19 Dec 98 at 17:21, Heine Broers wrote:

> >   Basically, you need to get a VGA card.  You *might* still be able
>
> ?? 286 machine in 1993, there were no VLB slots or even PCI slots.

  Right you are.  So a VGA card to fit that machine will have to be
ISA, and those have become scarce, which is why the "*might*".

> You prefer to get a Hercules monitor (still cheap second hands market) most
> CGA adaptors are also Hercules cards inside.

  No way.  ATI made a card that would do both, but it was most
monochrome MDA/MGA adapters that functioned like a Hercules inside.
Many provided a second monochrome graphics page in the CGA memory
range, but I'm not aware of any others that would respond to CGA port
mappings.
  And I don't believe such a card gets this poster any closer to
being able to run Windows 3.x on the machine.

David G

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