Re: Second Sight Announcement

[spqr@ruth.uucp (Will Baguhn)]

bazyar@netcom.com (Jawaid Bazyar) writes:

| spqr@ruth.uucp (Will Baguhn) writes:
| 
| >say, if it's //e legal, will it go in a ][+?  i'd LOVE to get rid of 
| >this cruddy old 80 col i've got now...
| 
|   You know, to be honest I hadn't given it any thought. A quick think
| leaves me with the impression that it wouldn't work as just an
| 80-column adaptor (it certainly wouldn't be Videx compatible).
| The card will handily follow any IIe softswitches, whether
| it's in a IIe or a II+.. but the II+ won't follow them, so
| you couldn't have ][+/local video memory.
| 
|   I don't see any reason it wouldn't work in a II+, unless the RDY
| signal doesn't operate as expected.
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ahh.  let me see if i am understanding.... 80 col text will work like a 
"real" enhanced //e with the 80col in aux via pr#3, but 40 col text 
isn't there... ?  'sokay, i'd use some other monitor for 40 col 
text/hgr/logr.  it'd be kinda spiffy having two independent monitors. 
:)

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