Vga cards and monitors and stuff .....

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From: Tony Nuttall
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:22

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I currently have an ancient herc card attached to my 386 and I thinkly heavily 
about giving it the heave ho and going to vga. 

So  i) what exactly is a hi-sierra ramdac and what will it do me ?  If I buy 
       a plain vga card now, can I upgrade later.

    ii) Are true-colour good vga card that much more expensive and are there 
        any performance penalties involved in 24-bit colour ?
   
    iii) I haven't got all that much to spend so can I use a vga mono monitor
         with any graphics cards to get grey scale output ( some kind of 
         supplied TSR perhaps ? )

Thanks in advance

tony
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Anthony Nuttall                           ajnuttal@teaching.cs.adelaide.edu.au

Maths and Computer Science Student     University of Adelaide, South Australia

"I shot daddy last night in the den,
 I mistook him in the dark for a drug-crazed nazi again."

	Weird Al Yankovic, "Trigger Happy"

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