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From: ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Loop Omnisync non-interlaced monitors (anyone have one?)
Message-ID: <1991Apr20.004434.21596@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: 20 Apr 91 00:44:34 GMT
References: <1991Apr19.185311.6972@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: Oklahoma State University
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From article <1991Apr19.185311.6972@leland.Stanford.EDU>, by fangchin@leland.Stanford.EDU (Chin Fang):
> Note, I use X, so I can design my own res and refresh rate within certain 
> limits.  If you use MSDOS, unless you do programming youself, you don't have
> such freedom I am afraid.

That is the problem here.  Most of us in this section uses MS/DOS 
and MS/DOS only.  You assumed that we uses X.  If fact, I think 
most of use does not know what "X" you are talking about.  X-windows?
Unix?  Special "DOS"?  What?

Most of us do not (cannot) write our own driver.  You assumed we can.

Now everything is out in the open...  stop insulting our 
computer/monitor paid for by our hard-earn blood/sweat money
because these are the "best" at our price-range.  We uses only
MS/DOS or PC/DOS and standard MS/DOS programs and cannot afford to
pay someone else to write driver to refresh the monitor at 60KHz or
whatever.  At 48KHz, it is the "best" we can get to (using standard
programs).

And also stop misleading the other users.  Many of them likewise 
cannot afford special 60KHz drivers for standard programs.

You are very good at designing 60KHz drivers, that's good.  We 
probably need your help sooner or later.  But now we just want to
get a monitor to display decent (noninterlaced) 1024x768 at 
an affordable price.  Is that so bad? 

p.s.  I checked around for 4D's at that time and the lowest I find is
      nearly $1100.  I checked with at least 5 well-established discount
      mail-order shops and several smaller ones.  It might be easier for you
      (and your friends) living in civilization to just run down to the
      shops and check it out, but I live in the middle of nowhere which
      makes it harder.