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From: chasm@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Charles Marslett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Monochrome VGA
Summary: Sometimes...
Message-ID: <8870@attctc.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 3 Aug 89 06:53:31 GMT
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In article <18950@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu>, nr3m@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Matthew A Henry) writes:
> In short, will a low cost monochrome VGA monitor be able to display VGA,
> EGA, CGA, MDA Hercules, and MCGA with the appropriate VGA adapter?

If the adapter card can handle it (for example, the STB VGA Extra/EM, EM-16
and the new C&T 451 and 452 based cards we will be selling soon all will
display color software in 64 shades of gray and monochrome in appropriate
monochrome attributes) all the existing standard software can be run on
a monochrome analog monitor, but the display will not always be usable if the
colors result in absurdly low contrast.  Another possible problem is that
cards (such as STB's AutoVGA) that automatically switch between video
types may be confused by some software, they are convenient, but not quite as
universal.

> Matt Henry  NR3M
> (412) 443-5071
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> nr3m@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu

Charles Marslett
chasm@attctc.dallas.tx.us
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