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From: um@wintek.UUCP (Mark Leighton Fisher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: NEC Multisync Plus misfeature
Message-ID: <510@wintek.UUCP>
Date: 10 Mar 88 15:39:56 GMT
References: <1686@bgsuvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: um@wintek.UUCP (Mark Leighton Fisher)
Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Organization: Wintek Corporation, Lafayette IN
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In article <1686@bgsuvax.UUCP>, ritzenth@bgsuvax.UUCP (Phil Ritzenthaler)
writes:
> [intro]
>As far as I can tell, the are 2 differences between the NEC II and the NEC 
>Plus:
> [details differences]

Unfortunately for some of us, there is one glaring misfeature in the NEC
Multisync Plus -- it doesn't support CGA resolution(s) (including the EGA
320x200 16-color mode).  If you attempt to speed things up, as in by using
320x200 in some cases (as our smARTWORK product does for the most zoomed-in
window on your printed-circuit board (4"x2.5")), you are out of luck.  You
are forced to put 640x350 or 640x480 pixels up on the screen, whether your
users need/desire them or not.  The Sony Multiscan apparently supports all
the resolutions of the NEC Multisync Plus AND supports CGA resolutions also.
-- 
Mark L. Fisher   Wintek Corp.
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