From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 29 21:51:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA03860 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 21:51:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA03855 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 21:50:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id GAA24389 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 06:50:49 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA02917; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 06:47:02 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970630064702.UJ55456@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 06:47:02 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Monitor shadows? References: <19970629195452.32243@vinyl.quickweb.com> <199706300043.TAA09721@dyson.iquest.net> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199706300043.TAA09721@dyson.iquest.net>; from John S. Dyson on Jun 29, 1997 19:43:54 -0500 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As John S. Dyson wrote: > Video is a very different animal. You can get by with fairly long cables, > IF and only IF you match the impedance of the cable and driving/receiving > devices. Needless to say that this is almost impossible to get with these crappy VGA connectors that are so `modern' these days. I really wonder why the industry didn't adopt something like the Sun solution when the VGA cards grew up to the dot-clock range of 100 or even 200 MHz. The DB-15 might have been appropriate for 28 MHz, but it can only lose in this respect at the higher frequencies. (No, i don't wonder. It's PeeCee, they always continue the currently used solution, however crappy it might be. See IDE. See ISA ``PnP''.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)