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- From: books@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu (Roger Books)
- Subject: Re: TECH: 2 video cards?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.162453.26219@u.washington.edu>
- Originator: hlab@stein.u.washington.edu
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- Organization: FSU nuclear physics
- References: <1992Nov18.050102.23495@u.washington.edu> <1992Nov19.072049.2479@u.w
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 15:03:33 GMT
- Approved: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu
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- In article <1992Nov22.040207.6524@u.washington.edu>
- bm@shadow.cc.columbia.edu (Blair MacIntyre) writes:
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- >The key here is that you are hooking up a _monochrome_ card, not a CGA
- >card. A monochrome card on the PC is one of those old things that lets
- >you display 80x24(25?) text characters ... remember those? No graphics,
- >no colour. Had flash and underline attributes, some even had the APL
- >character set (oooh, ahhh!)
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- No, this last is not true. You can use a hercules card as the
- monochrome. It is still fairly useless for VR, but the card does do
- graphics, it just uses a different memory address than the color
- cards.
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- >--
- >Blair MacIntyre --- bm@cs.columbia.edu --- CS Department, Columbia University
- >
- >"Men can get into shaving, because it reminds them of what stud hombres
- >they are, having to tame their manliness on a regular basis." - Dave Barry
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