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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Compaq/IBM VGA display compatibility
Keywords: compaq, VGA, display
Message-ID: <1915@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jan 90 06:34:23 GMT
References: <73211@philabs.Philips.Com>
Organization: Rick's Home-Grown UNIX; Portland, OR.
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dab@briar.philips.com (David Bryan;6247;3.25;$0201) writes:

>I have a Compaq 386/33 MHz machine with something called a Compaq Video
>Graphics Monitor, which is definitely some kind of VGA.  The main 
>application program that I run calls for me to specify whether my display
>is an "IBM VGA mode 12 color display" or an "IBM VGA mode 13 color display".

The "IBM VGA mode 12 color display" and "IBM VGA mode 13 color display"
aren't different types of monitors. They are different *display modes*

Mode 12 is 640 x 480 x 16 colors

Mode 13 is 320 x 200 x 256 colors

In short, the program is asking (badly!) what *resolution* you want
it to use on the display!! *ANY* color VGA monitor can display either.
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