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From: crouch@crunchie.axion.bt.co.uk (Chris Rouch)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: multi plane <> grayscale ??
Message-ID: <1990Feb28.124950.1874@axion.bt.co.uk>
Date: 28 Feb 90 12:49:50 GMT
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In article <1210028@hpfcmgw.HP.COM>, chan@hpfcmgw.HP.COM (Chan Benson) writes:
 
> I'm not sure what hardware you're talking about. To my knowledge, we
> make two monochrome display systems for our HP-UX workstations:
> 
> 	98544B   1024x768
> 	98548A   1280x1024
> 
> Both of these are single plane. Strangely enough, the 98548A supports
> a GreyScale visual, but it's still single plane.
> 
> The number that would identify your graphics system is on the card in
> the SPU. Although for monochrome, the monitor number does uniquely 
> determine the display hardware (98788A monitor goes with 98548 card;
> 98786A monitor goes with 98544B).
> 
We're using 98786A monitors. This is curious, because when we first
moved onto these workstations, from vaxstation 2000s, a couple of
programs failed because they were using copy area rather than copyplane
to load a bitmap. I assumed from that the HP display must be multiplane.

Chris
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Chris Rouch                                             crouch@axion.bt.co.uk
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Pick a card. Any card. WRONG.