Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!sce!sunray!roberts From: roberts@sunray.UUCP (Robert Stanley) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Using a 19" monitor with Windows Summary: IBM's 8514/A has the pixels but is only 15" Message-ID: <7144@sunray.UUCP> Date: 22 Sep 89 01:49:07 GMT References: <33910@coherent.coherent.com> <61647@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Reply-To: roberts@cognos.UUCP (Robert Stanley) Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada Lines: 40 In article <61647@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> P J Gupta writes: >In article <33910@coherent.coherent.com> jeanluc@coherent.com > (Jean-Luc Brouillet) writes: >>I want to use a 19" color monitor with Windows, hopefully at a resolution >>of about 1000 x 800. Does anyone knows of a combination of monitor / >>video card / driver that does the trick? > >I saw a demo of IBM's new 8514 Graphics Adapter. It has 1024x768 resolution >and the demo looked pretty slick. We were told that the 8514 card is >available for the time being for PS/2 model 50,55,70 and 80. I don't >know if this 8514 card would work with a std. IBM VGA monitor or requires >an autosync capable monitor. The 8514/A board needs an 8514 monitor (or equivalent). The 8514 monitor is a 15" interlaced monitor, which doesn't do badly for the price. The 8514/A is actually a fairly impressive graphics card, but there is a truly woeful lack of technical information available. Microsoft have true 8514/A drivers available in Windows/286 version 2.10 and Windows/386 version 2.11. Both Microsoft and IBM production versions of OS/2 1.10 (Presentation Manager) support the 8514/A. If you don't have 8514/A drivers, you get a perfect IBM VGA in a larger than usual format; it's actually rather nice. Rumour has it that there is a new version in the works which will have a higher resolution than the current 1024 x 768 pixels, however I haven't seen it yet. The main advantage of the 8514/A is not so much the increased real-estate (although that is extremely nice), it's the powerful and reasonably well-thought-out set of on-board graphics functions which help off-load the main processor. We've been running one on a PS/2 Model 80 for just about a year, and have had no problems, other than the usual idiosyncrasies of IBM hardware and Microsoft software. Robert_S -- | _ \ / _ \ / __| Robert Stanley UUCP: uunet!mitel!sce!cognos!roberts | |_> || |_| |\__ \ INET: roberts%cognos.uucp@uunet.uu.net |_| |_\|_| |_||___/ Voice: (613)738-1338 x6115 Cognos Inc., 3755 Riverside Drive, PO Box 9707, Ottawa, Ont K1G 3Z4, Canada