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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!proforma!jgg
- From: jgg@proforma.com (J. G. Gregory)
- Subject: Re: Mono Monitor Size: 17" or 16" or 15.5" ?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.172140.1236@proforma.com>
- Sender: jgg@proforma.com
- Organization: Pro Forma
- References: <1992Sep3.084526.25142@mic.ucla.edu>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 17:21:40 GMT
- Lines: 13
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- In article <1992Sep3.084526.25142@mic.ucla.edu> iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo
- Welch) writes:
- >
- >I am a bit annoyed that my so-called 17" monochrome monitor seems to
- >measure more like 16" (with a picture of 15.5"). Is this the common
- >mis-measurement among all 17" monitors, or did NeXT do something
- >unusual to inflate these numbers?
-
- The terminology of monitors talks about the nominal diagonal measurement of the
- actual piece of glass that makes the face. That NeXT doesn't use all of it is
- not a mistake. Overscanning is Bad.
-
- --J Gregory
-