On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 09:56:11PM +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Wednesday 2005-04-27 at 13:32 +0200, Johannes Meixner wrote:
On Apr 27 00:54 Carlos E. R. wrote (shortened):
... hardware that can be damaged by software is bad hardware ...
But many users love to buy the ceapest hardware and unfortunately later some of them complain at us about the consequences. I really hope that most users with ceap hardware complain about the consequences at the hardware manufacturer, but I am not really 100% sure ;-)
That's true. The hardware gets cheaper, but the software should be more expensive - ah, no, this is open software, it's free ;-)
... wasn't there an early virus that could damage CGA monitors years ago?
No. You can still damage any monitor without built-in protection against wrong timings by using wrong timings.
Mmmm, I don't remember exactly, long years have passed; but I know that one of the earliest MsDos virus (80s vintage) was said to destroy the monitor. Could be a false rumour, though: I never tried it to check!
This was long before my time but I collect things like that on floppy. I have some that does in fact destroy hardware. If you want to totally destroy a monitor that's easy. The DOS way probably worked similar because back then more monitors were not protected from high frequencys they didn't support. I imagine it worked this way, I can only guess though, considering I was like 2 years old.
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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