On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Jason Brazile wrote:

> The last time I installed NetBSD/i386 1.2, it was on a machine
> whose only video was a 12 inch amber monochrome screen hooked up
> to a Hercules monochrome video card (one of those full length 8
> bit cards taken out of an old XT) and I had no problems.
> 
> There is even supposedly XFree86 support for that but I never tried it.
> 
> I think MGA is a different (later) thing, though.
> 
	MGA was the original IBM 'Monochome Graphics Adapator', which
	was text only. Hercules was a later third party card that
	supported the MGA text functionality, plus added graphics modes.