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From: sichermn@beach.csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Is this an effective combination
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Date: 21 Dec 90 01:55:57 GMT
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  I have a friend who has a desire to upgrade his video from an
Orchid Prodesigner (old) and Nec Multisync II to something with
a larger screen and more resolution. Color pallette capacity is
not necessarily an issue. However, he has an original 8MHz true-blue
IBM PC/AT and has no interest in upgrading it (so far). Most of
his work is in Windows (3.0 now). I am concerned that using one
of the new high-res video cards (1024x768) and monitors will put
a real load on the GUI overhead in drawing such large images on
such a slow machine so that he will end up trading off speed for
the improved image.

  Any comments ?

Jeff Sicherman