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- From: dbeeman@dogstar.Colorado.edu (Dave Beeman)
- Subject: Re: Standard VGA Monitor supports 640x480x256 mode?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.170234.3917@colorado.edu>
- Keywords: VGA IBM
- Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet)
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- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:02:34 GMT
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- In article <1jl70sINNnaf@ector.cs.purdue.edu>, kang@cs.purdue.edu (Byonghoon Kang) writes:
- |> I have a Standard VGA Monitor which supoorts
- |> standard VGA mode.
- |> My question is that if I have a graphics card which
- |> supports 640x480x256 mode, can my VGA monitor display it?
-
- The sweep frequencies of a monitor affect the resolutions which can be
- displayed, but not the number of colors. If your graphics card allows it,
- you can display 16.7 million colors, as well as 16 or 256 colors.
-
- Dave Beeman - dbeeman@dogstar.colorado.edu
-