Noddy <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>"Murderous Speeding Drunken Distracted Driver (Hector Goldstein)"
><drunk_and_distracted@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>> I'm thinking his best bet for that, not being a developer, would have
>> been to salvage the tube in the hopes he could get it working with
>> EGA/VGA signaling.
>
>I'm far from an Electronics or computer expert, but I seem to remember
that
>while the screen was this lovely *huge* thing compared to what everyone
else
>in the PC world was using at the time, it was a fixed frequency unit that
>made it useless for anything else.
This was the case for everything back then. It was standard for most
monitors in the non-PC world to be fixed frequency; in the case of Suns,
SGIs, and Apple products for instance, the connector carried information
to the video card about what rate the monitor could run at.
In the VGA world, it was the opposite, mostly thanks to the NEC Multisync
monitor which pioneered the concept for PCs, even before VGA. There, the
PC provided information to the monitor about what rate to run at. This
was very im****tant in the PC-DOS world also because it meant different
programs
could use different resolutions (since DOS allowed any application to take
over all the video hardware completely).
It WAS possible to put Sun and SGI monitors onto PCs when Windows came
along, by forcing the video card to operate at only a single fixed rate
and not changing it. Sometimes some additional tinkering was needed to
deal with external synch vs. synch on green. I have an old DEC monitor
on my Apple G5 at work right now, in fact.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
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