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From: phil@diablo.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: VGA and Disk Questions
Keywords: VGA, disk, dos, unix
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Date: 5 Dec 89 19:51:42 GMT
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In article <662@eedsp.eedsp.gatech.edu> smg@eedsp.gatech.edu (Stephen McGrath) writes:
|First, I would like to know whether there is any benefit to a 1024x768 VGA
|display over, say, an 800x600 VGA display system. Are there many applications
|under dos that will use the 1024x768 mode? Is the 1024x768 VGA display
|supported under unix? 

I don't know about Unix but your display will typically come with at
least a Windows driver. I also just got 1024x768 support in a
schematic capture program (Orcad) and it makes the difference between
panning and not panning an A size page. 

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