Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!bionet!apple!voder!tolerant!oliveb!sun!wind!naughton From: naughton%wind@Sun.COM (Patrick Naughton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: EGA, Monitor, Question Keywords: EGA Color Monitor IBM PC multisync Message-ID: <76529@sun.uucp> Date: 8 Nov 88 05:04:45 GMT References: <799@starfish.Convergent.COM> <324@wuibc.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: naughton@sun.UUCP (Patrick Naughton) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 20 In article <324@wuibc.UUCP> dwd0238@wucec3.wustl.edu (David Deitch) writes: >In article <799@starfish.Convergent.COM> jerry@starfish.Convergent.COM (Gerald Hawkins) writes: >> Is there any advantage in buying an EGA card >>which is more dense (800x600) than the Monitor I plan to buy? I expect >>to use this monitor for several years ... >> > You would need a multisync monitor before you could see more than >640x480. My question would be do you NEED to see more? > > David Deitch, Computer Connection Why would you NEED more than 640x480? Are you kidding? I have 1600x1280 on my screen right now and it is not enough! My VGA at home has 1024x768 and it seems tiny in comparison... "...you can always use more pixels..." -Me ______________________________________________________________________ Patrick J. Naughton ARPA: naughton@Sun.COM Window Systems Group UUCP: ...!sun!naughton Sun Microsystems, Inc. AT&T: (415) 336 - 1080