Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!think!ames!pacbell!att!ihnp4!ihlpf!straka
From: straka@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Straka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Thanks for help
Message-ID: <5072@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Date: 20 Jun 88 13:11:01 GMT
References: <3201@ut-emx.UUCP> <76000231@uiucdcsp>
Reply-To: straka@ihlpf.UUCP (55223-Straka,R.J.)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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In article <76000231@uiucdcsp> gillies@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
|I didn't say it was the same monitor, I said it had the same picture
|tube.  Both are TRINITRON picture tubes, and you can verify it by looking
|
|I don't see how Apple can throw away pictures tubes looking for a
|"good" one for each monitor they produce.  Besides, I was under the
|impression that the AppleColor monitor was manufactured by Sony for
|Apple, but I may be wrong.
|
|Are you saying that Sony video products have inferior quality?  Are
|you familiar with Sony television products?

I would assume that the Apple monitor is just a rather tightly spec'd
Trinitron tube.  When you make a whole bunch of tubes like Sony, some are
likely to be a bit better than others.  Sony is evidently willing to sell
Apple its best tubes, or it is willing to put extra effort (of course, in
exchange for extra $$) into making those monitors better than the standard
Trinitrons.  This is all standard manufacturing procedure.

Do you really think that (by and large) 150ns RAMS are off a different
manufacturing line than the 120ns RAMS?  No, the 120ns ones are the fast ones,
and the 150ns ones just can't hack the tight access times; they are "binned"
out as slower parts.  (not that there aren't parts targeted for different
speeds of course, but that's a different story)
-- 
Rich Straka     ihnp4!ihlpf!straka

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