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From: barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Monitor question
Keywords: wha?
Message-ID: <4401@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 5 Mar 90 17:44:34 GMT
Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF
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	I don't understand something about monitors.  If I put up a 640x200
screen on my 13" Commodore 1080 monitor, it practically fills the monitor
screen.  This is no problem.

	Suppose I have a 13" multisync monitor with higher resolution and
smaller pixels -- say 1280x750.  I put up the same screen.  How should it
show up?

	(a)	Smaller (in inches) than the screen on my 1080, with a huge
		"dead area" surrounding it?
	(b)	The same size (in inches) as the screen on my 1080, but
		with "enlarged" pixels?  (That is, magnified.)
	(c)	Something else?

Are things different if this is an interlaced screen?

What in the world happens if I request overscan?

	Thanks in advance...!

                                                        Dan

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