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- From: ajnuttal@teaching.cs.adelaide.edu.au (Tony Nuttall)
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- Subject: Vga cards and monitors and stuff .....
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 11:22:31 CST
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- I currently have an ancient herc card attached to my 386 and I thinkly heavily
- about giving it the heave ho and going to vga.
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- So i) what exactly is a hi-sierra ramdac and what will it do me ? If I buy
- a plain vga card now, can I upgrade later.
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- ii) Are true-colour good vga card that much more expensive and are there
- any performance penalties involved in 24-bit colour ?
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- iii) I haven't got all that much to spend so can I use a vga mono monitor
- with any graphics cards to get grey scale output ( some kind of
- supplied TSR perhaps ? )
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- Thanks in advance
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- tony
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- Anthony Nuttall ajnuttal@teaching.cs.adelaide.edu.au
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- Maths and Computer Science Student University of Adelaide, South Australia
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- "I shot daddy last night in the den,
- I mistook him in the dark for a drug-crazed nazi again."
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