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- From: rseymour@reed.edu (Robert Seymour)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Monitor size and resolution
- Keywords: multi-sync, multiple resolution, monitors
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.084438.5761@reed.edu>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 08:44:38 GMT
- Article-I.D.: reed.1992Nov11.084438.5761
- References: <8610023@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
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- Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
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- In article <8610023@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> dlc@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Dennis Clark)
- writes:
- > In comp.sys.mac.hardware, hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades) writes:
- >
- > > dlc@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Dennis Clark) writes:
- > >
- > > >In comp.sys.mac.hardware, guiyu@spectra (Kui Yu Chang) writes:
- > >
- > > >> MON size resolution hori. freq(Khz)
- > > >> -------- ---------- ---------------
- > > >> 12" 512 x 384 24.15
- > > >> 13" or 14" 640 x 480 35.0 <-- [also 15"]
- > > >> 16" 832 x 624 50 (approx.)<-- [also 17"]
- > > >> 19" 1024 x 768 60 (approx.)<-- [also 20"]
- > > >> 21" 1152 x 870 68.24
- > > >>
- > > >>Above are the STANDARD resolutions used on the respective SIZE of the
- > > >>monitor. True, you can display 1152 x 870 on a 14", but a 14" is not a
- > > >>STANDARD to display it. Thus, when people say 16" resolution, they mean
- > > >>832 x 624.
- > >
- > > > Hmmm, I am running a SuperMac Spectrum 8 card with a Sony 16" at
- 1024x768 -
- > > >it is NOT WYSIWYG however, but it is nice.
- > >
- > > The person above was not talking about multi-synch monitors that can
- > > display other resolutions than the "standard" resolution for the
- > > monitor's size. 16" standard resolution is 832x624.
- >
- > Neither am I, this is a standard SONY 16" Trinitron monitor, not a multi-
- > sync. It is a 60HZ monitor and a standard in the unix market.
- >
- > DLC
-
- Your talking about two different things here. In one case you have
- mulit-synchronous monitors, and in the other multiple resolution. Multi-sync
- monitors are built to be compatible with a variety of graphics (hardware)
- drivers by accepting more than one scan rate. However, multiple resolution
- monitors are able to display more than one resolution, thus allowing hardware
- pan and zoom.
- The above stated 16" Sony is multiple resolution (often this is the
- sole province of the driving hardware (i.e. board)). This is independent of
- it's being multi-sync. The pixel resolutions given above are the *standard*
- resolutions at each size (note other size designations, the trend seems to be
- to use the bezel dimensions [case in point AppleColor 13" --> MacColorDisplay
- 14" even though they are the same monitor with different curcuitry]).
- In a multiple resolution setup, other resolutions may be used (i.e. the
- 1024x768 used on a 16" monitor as above). However, when displaying at higher
- resolution, the display is no longer WYSIWYG, so this limits it's usefulness
- for publishing, graphics, or layout.
-
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- Robert Seymour rseymour@reed.edu
- Departments of Physics and Philosophy
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