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From: mmm@gssc.UUCP (Preacher McLain)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Does NEC Multisync work with new VDI?
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Date: Thu, 16-Apr-87 17:22:32 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 16 17:22:32 1987
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In article <1631@bnrmtv.UUCP> perkins@bnrmtv.UUCP (Henry Perkins) writes:
|The Subject: line says it all, I guess.  I'd like specs on what the
|new VDI in the IBM model 50/60/80 will accept in the way of monitors.
     ^^^

	I believe you mean the new VGA (Video Graphics Array).  There's no
such thing as a VDI (Virtual Device Interface) video board, that I know of.
VDI is a software graphics standard not a hardware standard.  (Not a flame,
merely an explanation!)

|I'm particularly interested in whether the NEC Multisync and the
|Thomson/Mitsubishi multifrequency monitor will work.

	These monitors will not work with the new VGA, because they have 9-pin
plugs and the VGA requires a 15-pin plug.  I suppose a 9-to-15-pin adapter is
a possiblity, but I'm not sure even that would work.  The VGA is able to
detect whether it's hooked to a color or a monochrome monitor, so there must
be a signal from the monitor that probably isn't present in the NEC or T/M.

|
|On a related note: anyone have an estimate as to when the clone
|makers will have a VDI-compatible video board?  I'm trying to
|decide whether to get an EGA board now, pay big buck$ for IBM's
|VDI board, or wait for a VDI board clone.

	(Once again, it's a *VGA* board.)  I've seen reports in recent trade
rags in which some companies (I don't remember which ones) are claiming clones
will be available this year some time.  Time will tell.

-- 
			       Mitchell McLain
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