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From: ritzenth@bgsuvax.UUCP (Phil Ritzenthaler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: NEC Multisync vs. NEC Multisync Plus
Message-ID: <1853@bgsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 7 Apr 88 14:07:41 GMT
References: <310@encad.Wichita.NCR.COM>
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From article <310@encad.Wichita.NCR.COM>, by jpederse@encad.Wichita.NCR.COM (John Pedersen):
> One thing that I just found out today in the Multisync II and Multisync Plus
> battle is that the Multisync Plus will not emulate all the CGA modes. We have
> some of both in house and I always wondered why the opening "advertisement"
> screen on MS Word and other MS packages will not display correctly on the
> Multisync Plus monitors but work fine with the IIs.

From discussing this with NEC and VGA board manufacturers, the word I have
gotten is that if you want the Plus, make sure that your board can DOUBLE SCAN
in the CGA mode.

I don't know if this is the definitive answer, but maybe it helps . . .

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