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From: ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Tip to users of interlaced monitors
Message-ID: <1991Mar3.222520.20870@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: 3 Mar 91 22:25:20 GMT
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Organization: Oklahoma State University
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From article <26034414@bfmny0.BFM.COM>, by tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff):
> The best torture for interlaced hi-res is selecting WEAVE.BMP as your
> wallpaper!  YOW!!  :-)
> 
> How's this for irony: I have 1024x768x{16,256} available non-interlaced
> any time I want it, given this combo of Tseng4000 video card and NEC 4D
> monitor; but I stay with interlaced even so!  Why?  Because otherwise,
> the monitor constantly >KLICK<s loudly every time I switch to a window
> in text mode, or launch a DosApp.  I guess there's a relay involved in
> the scan rate switch.  I just can't stand it!  I'd rather put up with a
> teeny bit of flicker now and then.  It actually seems to help legibility
> a bit on small fonts.  Non-interlaced isn't quiiiite as focused.
> Probably a quirk of the hardware.

I am considering interlace/noninterlace monitor at this time, the
noninterlaced is about $300 more.  Are you saying that noninterlaced
is not that a big deal over interlaced?