> but the differences between individual VGA cards were too big. Buyed the programming manual for the ET4000 GPU (>100DM for this manual alone, a lot for a stu

> but the differences between individual VGA cards were too big. Buyed the programming manual for the ET4000 GPU (>100DM for this manual alone, a lot for a student from the eastern part of Germany at this time), opcodes and all. I liked the possibility to easily mix Assembler with Pascal in Turbo Pascal. Machine code for graphics, FPU, interrupt programming, the higher language for anything else. After that, I learned C from the Open Source Fractint. So, the transition wasn't that painful after TP's decline. And anything was so snappy in Turbo Pascals text mode windowing system (as with Norton Commander too).