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In article <1993Jan20.162342.7430@newsgate.sps.mot.com>, tomt@nano.sps.mot.com (Tom Tomazin) writes:
> Hello.
> I am in the process of deciding on a Dell configuration.  I have everything 
> picked out except for the monitor (Dell 450M, 8M, 230M, 2.88M floppy).  I want
> a 15", so my choices are a Dell Ultrascan 15FS (actually Sampo model kdm-1566)
> or an NEC 3FGx.  The NEC costs an extra $150.  I plan on doing a lot of work at
> 1024x768.  Any opinions?
> Also, I plan on using the Dell to dial into my sparc2 at work.  Can someone
> point me to an ftp site that has some x emulation software for the pc?
> Thanks,
> Tom
> tomt@nano.sps.mot.com
> 

I have used the Dell Ultrascan 15FS with the 486P/33 on-board graphics.  The display is not too bad at 1024x768 (256 colours) at 70 Hz vertical refresh rate non-interlaced.  *some* flicker is detectable by some people who view the screen.
Not *too* annoying though.

The horiz & vert screen placement controls allow the picture to be spread out to the extremes of left & right, but not quite to such an extent vertically.  There is some distortion at these extreme settings - the vertical edge is curved, and the windows root colour has some sort of fringing effect.

I use the PC to run HCL eXceed/W X11 server to connect to Sun Sparc systems via Sun PC-NFS over Ethernet.  Performance is quite good, but not quite as good as a Sparc IPC (although PC has DOS and 8 Mb memory, IPC has SunOS 4.1.3 and 24 Mb memory...)