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In article <1991Jun29.233109.24036@leland.Stanford.EDU> rameshn@leland.Stanford.EDU (ramesh narayanaswamy) writes:

 > i am planning to bug a 386 clone, and i am debating whether to buy
 > VGA or SVGA card/monitor. the only reason i have for buying a color
 > monitor is i plan to buy a cd-rom at some later date.

I hope that it is a safe assumption that you mean you want to buy a 386
clone system, not bug one, right?  If the latter, I can't help you since
I have no experience in covert electronic surveilance whatsoever. {grin}

It is not clear to me exactly why you think your plans to add a CD-ROM
to your system should make a difference as to what video display to get.
Whether you have a monochrome-VGA or color-VGA or SuperVGA system should
not make much difference with regard to the CD-ROM drive, with the
exception that if you buy CD-ROM's with large amounts of color imagery,
you may wish to have a color display (but then again, 8-bit color as
afforded by VGA would not be enough anyway...)

I would recommend that you get a SuperVGA system over a standard VGA one
since at this point the price differential is very small, and you will
greatly appreciate having the extra resolution to display more
information on your screen at a given time.  Take a look at the
relatively new cards which are coming out that are economical but add
something special (i.e. anti-aliasing with the CEG or proprietary
chipset, 24-bit color instead of just 8-bit, graphics coprocessors,
etc.) and see if any of their features would be useful for your
applications for the system.

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