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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: GS Troubles O'Plenty
Message-ID: <9671@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 20 Feb 89 23:48:58 GMT
References: <113300041@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <113300041@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>I seem to have a problem with my GS with RGB monitor...
>When I'm using the Finder with its dithered blue desktop, I get all sorts
>of strange moire effects (remember the OLD OLD DOS 3.3 System Master program?)
>Is this normal, or is something wrong with my GS? (I had it upgraded to ROM
>1.0 long ago, but whether they put in the new video chip I don't know)...

Despite its high price, Apple's RGB monitor is basically just normal color
TV technology.  It is virtually impossible to align it accurately enough
to prevent such Moire effects, which are the result of "beating" of the
phosphor dot spacing on the screen against the pixel pattern.