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From: hollyr@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Holly Raab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: RE:  Northgate Slimline 386/20 PC
Keywords: some software/hardware problems
Message-ID: <6722@brspyr1.BRS.Com>
Date: 23 Mar 90 14:32:20 GMT
Organization: BRS Info Technologies, Latham NY
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We happen to have that exact setup here (the VGA monitor is 
a NEC multisync 2A).  It works fine with the exception that
we cannot create fonts for Ventura with Bitstream fontware.
We orginally had the 2.0 version, and tech support for Bitstream
said that it wouldn't run on a 386 machine, so they sent us
the 1.0 version.  We tried that, with no avail.  It seems to
work on my system (same northgate 386 with a NEC monograph
monitor), just not with that particular setup (it's not the
computer, we have two setups like that, doesn't run on either).

The real problems started happening when we put the NEC monograph
{full-screen, for desktop publishing} monitor with my Northgate.
First we had problems with Ventura.  Those (with the help of 
a driver from NEC) have just about cleared up.  The real problem
is communicating with the mainframe here.  Regardless of the 
communication package, characters are dropped.  It seems like
a simple problem but it's not.  The tech people here have tried
to fix it, as well as the tech support people at NEC and Northgate.

That about sums it up.  Good luck with your purchase.


Holly Raab