Video Electronics Standards Association or something. As in, IBM isn't
leading, so let's agree on something. The PC may eventually get to where
the Amiga was in 1988 by such efforts.

The standard remains VGA, from the IBM PS/2, which sucked when it came
out, but that's what you KNOW you have on a PC if you have a monitor.

VESA can tell you a lot about a compliant card. That's nice. My 1997 BIOS
does have the string "VESA" in the ROM.

A card database can do the same thing. 

If I read the VESA VBE 3.0 spec right, they're breaking thier own stuff.
This is taboo. This means they are losing validity fast. In particular, if
I wasn't hallucinating, they said the plain 32-bit interface has BECOME
optional. Probably because WinDoS can't really use it, because it's really
DOS. Betcha. Base VESA is 16 bit. VESA 2 had a nice 32 bit interface, but
they seem to want to break that in VBE 3, "to save ROM".

With PCI, EISA, UTF-8 and so on, would somebody PLEASE kill the PC?


