From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jun 29 22:46:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA05755 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 22:46:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA05750 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 22:46:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id PAA24302; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 15:16:17 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199706300546.PAA24302@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Monitor shadows? In-Reply-To: <19970630064702.UJ55456@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Jun 30, 97 06:47:02 am" To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 15:16:17 +0930 (CST) Cc: chat@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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( -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[