Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!purdue!decwrl!decvax!mcnc!ncsuvx!csclea!bank From: bank@csclea.ncsu.edu (Lord Ralter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: *GA and TC Message-ID: <2367@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> Date: 30 Nov 88 06:05:21 GMT References: <422@babbage.acc.virginia.edu> Sender: nntp@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu Reply-To: bank@csclea.UUCP (Lord Ralter) Organization: Computer Science , NCSU, Raleigh NC Lines: 16 In article <422@babbage.acc.virginia.edu> mac3n@babbage.acc.virginia.edu (Alex Colvin) writes: >. Is VGA backward compatible with EGA? > >. If not, does Turbo C support VGA? >and >. What of IBMs forthcoming ?GA graphics? It actually depends on the adapter. MOST VGA boards ARE downwardly compatible. Only incredibly cheap ones aren't. You'll have to ask Borland about Turbo C. I suspect it very much depends on which version you have (1.0, 1.5, or 2.0). Who knows what IBM will do next????? Dave bank@csclea.UUCP