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From: "Frank Brand" <fbrand at uq.net.au>
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Subject: Re: [H-GEN] Splash screens
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><snip>
>To be fair[1], it's not really a stupid thing that MS did.  It just so
>happens that one of the standard modes for a VGA card is 320x400 and it
just
>so happens that this is the mode that MS is using as they boot up, there's
>nothing particularly unusual or stupid about it.


Yes agreed. When the splash screen displays. The video driver has not yet
been loaded so whatever is used needs to be a standard VGA setting. In fact,
if you just make a disk bootable using command.com and do not load Windows
at all you will still get the splash screen.


Frank Brand


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