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From: bcw@rti.UUCP (Bruce Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Two Questions
Summary: Typo in number of VGA lines
Message-ID: <2836@rti.UUCP>
Date: 19 Mar 89 21:12:33 GMT
References: <2392@bucsb.UUCP> <11250069@hpldola.HP.COM>
Organization: Research Triangle Institute, RTP, NC
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In article <11250069@hpldola.HP.COM>, ppa@hpldola.HP.COM (Paul P. Austgen) writes:
> 1)  You can use the 384 K above the base 640 K as extended
> memory.  This is normally accessed with either a virtual disk
> probgram or else some disk cacheing program such as the one in
> PCTools.  I don't know where you buy a ram disk program, but I
> think they are cheap or free.

Actually this depends on the machine, though many do operate this way.
Other machines use it for a shadow RAM so the BIOS can run in RAM rather
than in ROM, or place it in strange places so that it can be difficult to
locate.

> 2)  VGA has 420 lines vertically, as opposed to 350 for a EGA.  I
> think that the fonts look a lot better.  Of course if the VGA
> isn't very good, poor brightness or focus, a good EGA would be
> better.

420 appears to be a typo for 480 - the standard VGA is 640 x 480.  You
are right that a good monitor can make a -big- difference in the result.

						Bruce C. Wright