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Date:      Mon, 30 Jun 1997 15:16:17 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Monitor shadows?
Message-ID:  <199706300546.PAA24302@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <19970630064702.UJ55456@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Jun 30, 97 06:47:02 am"

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J Wunsch stands accused of saying:
> 
> 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.

A _good_ Dsub15 will actually pass your signals pretty well.  I concur
that the average Dsub15 these days is total crap.

On the other hand, have you ever tried to buy a 13w3 connector?  They
are _not_ cheap. 8(

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