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From: gemini@homxb.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc,net.micro
Subject: Re: IBM AT Clone Color Card/Monitor HELP!
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Date: Wed, 16-Apr-86 04:50:04 EST
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I have a NEC multisync monitor, which I highly recommend.  It supports
CGA/EGA, and also has analog RGB inputs, so you have room to grow.

As for EGA clones, the jury here is still out.  I bought a Video-7 VEGA,
which uses the same chipset as the Quadram.  It suffered from random
loss of cursor and caused system crashes in just plain DOS, not to
mention what it did to Venix/286.  I'm still waiting for a replacement.

The VEGA (and Quadram) use the Chips chipset.  These chips are a close,
but not 100% identical rendering of the IBM EGA plus Herc mode.  The
differences are masked at the ROM BIOS level (like a lot of early
add-on hard disk controllers were).  What this means is that you cannot
be 100% sure that all software for the IBM EGA will actually run on
this clone.  The "well-behaved" program will.  Venix, Xenix, etc. all
do their own programming of the video controller, so the chances are
great that a special device driver will be needed for some of the
more exotic applications.

Personally,  I'm going to try to stick it out with the clones, but
then, I do have the Venix/286 driver kit in case I find myself up
a creek...

Rick Richardson, PC Research, Inc. (201) 922-1134, (201) 834-1378 @ AT&T-CP
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