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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: SuperVGA (800x600 & 1024x768)... Any suggestions?
Keywords: monitor, SVGA
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Date: 6 Sep 90 16:49:52 GMT
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In article <1368@challenger.nsc.com> my@challenger.UUCP (Michael Yip) writes:
|Right now, I am using the NEC 2A monitor with the
|Paradise VGA board.  The highest resolution that
|I can display with Window 3.0 is 800x600x16.  It's
|pretty good. And I recommend them.

I have a Paradise 1024 running 800x600 on a Seiko 1440 and it
works pretty well. I'm using the 8514 fonts and the characters
are much better formed. Terminal gives me 24x80 very readable
characters. I tried 1024x768 but it was unbearable slow.
Seems to be a big "knee" between the two modes.

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