On Thu, 2 Apr 2015 20:46:13 -0600
Gordon Haverland <ghaverla@???> wrote:

> Originally, the reason people bought graphics cards (or better graphics
> cards) was to improve graphics performance. Which to a dinosaur like
> me means X11 and X servers.

With due respect, your Worship, the reason people originally bought graphic cards (Hercules IIRC) was to get some graphic display posibility, in days when the PC could only display text in MDA mode...

Cheers,

Ron.
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