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From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
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Subject: Re: MULTISYNC RECOMENDATIONS
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Date: 21 Mar 90 21:36:28 GMT
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In article <9003210448.AA04440@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu> boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd) writes:
>I believe you MUST lose clarity on the monochrome image when viewed on a 
>color monitor, because of the color mask (little RGB dots) that is overlayed
>on the screen itself (extremely bad description, but I hope you get the idea).
>Any color monitor with a fine enough color mask to be unnoticeable in mono 
>mode would be extremely expensive, if it exists.

But there are monitors around (like the original NEC Multisync) with a
monochrome mode switch, which let you select which of the 3 color guns to
use to emulate monochrome. (You could activate all 3, but that would be
self-defeating in this case.) If you only activated one, then you should
have a pretty fine resolution, yes?
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  -- Howard Chu @ University of Michigan