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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?
Message-ID:  <19970630064702.UJ55456@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199706300043.TAA09721@dyson.iquest.net>; from John S. Dyson on Jun 29, 1997 19:43:54 -0500
References:  <19970629195452.32243@vinyl.quickweb.com> <199706300043.TAA09721@dyson.iquest.net>

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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. ;-)



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