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- From: slug@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Glen Anthony Graham)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: 640X480X256 on a VGA monitor with 512K card ???
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- Date: 31 Aug 92 21:02:35 GMT
- References: <1992Aug30.185048.6940@dragon.acadiau.ca>
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- In article <1992Aug30.185048.6940@dragon.acadiau.ca> 890491g@dragon.acadiau.ca (Don Graves) writes:
- >I have standard VGA (256K with a standard VGA color monitor). Is it possible
- >to have 640X480X256 using a SVGA 512K card on my standard VGA monitor? I mean,
- >the monitor can do 640X480, but does the amount of simultaneously displayed
- >colors depend on the card alone, or is it also bound by the monitor? Any
- >comments?
-
- Yes, your monitor can display them (if it is a normal monitor!). Most (all?)
- monitors that I know of are analog monitors so can display all the available
- colors (16.7 million with suitible RAMDAC cards...)
-
- Glen Graham
- slug@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
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