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From: dmt@mtunb.ATT.COM (Dave Tutelman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: EGA, Monitor, Question
Keywords: EGA Color Monitor IBM PC multisync
Message-ID: <1324@mtunb.ATT.COM>
Date: 16 Nov 88 16:26:27 GMT
References: <799@starfish.Convergent.COM> <324@wuibc.UUCP> <76529@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: dmt@mtunb.UUCP (Dave Tutelman)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs - Lincroft, NJ
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In article <76529@sun.uucp> naughton@sun.UUCP (Patrick Naughton) writes:
>In article <324@wuibc.UUCP> dwd0238@wucec3.wustl.edu (David Deitch) writes:
>>... 640x480.  My question would be do you NEED to see more?
>>
>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...

I agree with Patrick, but he is asking you to "trust him".  Just to
convince you he's not Joe Isuzu, here's a future-look that could
spoil you so as to not want to go back:

Before I'll convert an awful lot of my paper to electronic impulses,
I'll need a screen that can show me two full 8-1/2 by 11 pages
(that's inches, there's a slightly larger standard metric size),
plus some control area (for menus, search strings, status, etc).
when you add up the pixels for this, you get about 1280x1000 for
an 80x66 character page.  If instead you assume proportional fonts
for a WYSIWYG word processor, 1600x1280 sounds about right.

The applications for this might be program debugging, or could be
the prerequisite hardware before CD-ROM books make sense.  (I'd
probably be pretty dissatisfied with electronic reference manuals
without a display of two full pages.)

Hope this helps.
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