Hi,
VESA will be disappointed to hear that their VBE
standard
which does define four 132-column modes (109 - 10C) is not a
"standard" at all....
The problem with the VESA "standard" was that, back then, it had come along
*FAR* too late in the day for it to have actually been worth a damn!
I was dealing with graphics cards in PCs extensively in the course of my
work between about 1990 and 1995, and, quite frankly, VESA was the bane of
my life - all it achieved was to make things significantly MORE complicated.
And those TSRs which allegedly turned non-VESA compliant cards into VESA
compliant cards were, in most cases, enough to drive you to the point of
slashing your wrists.... :-(
Nowadays, VESA would certainly be worth investigating since all this stuff
is obsolete and available at little or no cost.
But like everyone else, you've missed the point. The OP was originally
asking about standard IBM cards, not about VESA "standard" cards which are a
different kettly of fish....
TTFN - Pete.