VGA boards and screen fonts

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From: norman miller
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 1990 17:48

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I'm running a Hercules Graphics Plus card with a mono monitor.  I'm
very happy with it because I can use the RAMFONT drivers to give me
a screen font that I like.  Moreover, WP 5.1 and NotaBene support
the card.

But my friends tell me that I'm simply not in the swim without a VGA
card and monitor and I'm beginning to believe them.  *But* I'm not
going to give up my lovely sanserif screen font without a fight.  The
question, therefore, is: can I get the same choices under VGA?  If so,
which?  

Then a second question: if I choose to work in mono mode (I hope that's
the right phrase) will the resolution be degraded or will it still be
VGA or SVGA quality?

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Subject: VGA boards and screen fonts
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