Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!netxcom!jallen
From: jallen@netxcom.UUCP (John Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: NEC Multisync Plus misfeature
Message-ID: <710@netxcom.UUCP>
Date: 11 Mar 88 19:41:02 GMT
References: <1686@bgsuvax.UUCP> <510@wintek.UUCP>
Reply-To: jallen@netxcom.UUCP (John Allen)
Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Organization: NetExpress Communications, Inc., Vienna, VA
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In article <510@wintek.UUCP> um@wintek.UUCP (Mark Leighton Fisher) writes:
>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.

Some boards, such as the Everex EVGA provide for this by double scanning.
When the board is set up for "higher resolution" monitors, (the Sony is
used as the example), 400 lines are displayed in 200 line modes.  The
19" Multisync XL works very well in this mode, so I would expect the Plus
would as well.

On a separate note, our original Multiscan has been performing well in
800 by 600 mode, even though it's not rated for that resolution.  Should
I expect damage to result from this "misuse", or are the claims about
these monitors not working in 800 by 600 mode based purely on the specs?

John Allen
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