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From: poffen@molehill (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 132 columns by 50 lines
Message-ID: <1990Jan3.161424.22736@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 3 Jan 90 16:14:24 GMT
References: <9001012012.AA20667@cie.uoregon.edu> <1881@bucket.UUCP>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Organization: Schlumberger ATE, San Jose, CA
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In article <1881@bucket.UUCP> leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) writes:
>kevins@CIE.UOREGON.EDU writes:
>
>>This is a simple question, but since I don't yet have a VGA
>>(but will very soon), can I set up my screen to display
>>text in 132 columns and 50 lines long?
>
>Since the maximum resolution of a _VGA_ screen is 720x480 that gives a
>5x9 character matrix. Not what *I* would call a readable font. To get
>132 columns you either need some sort of superVGA card or one of the
>monochrome cards that supports 132 column. We have some from Everex 
>that work well.
>

Most third-party VGA cards also offer 800 X 600 16 color resolution. This can
be done with a 256K card and could support 132 X 50 text.

Note however that this is not a VGA standard, but a sort of defacto standard
that most VGA cards offer. As such, you will need a utility provided by the
card manufacturer to get these modes.

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