RE: Resoultion

Yes, (give Rick a prize)
Because that is the default that Win 95 will set itself
to if no-one changes it. The people who are reporting
higher settings are seeing the results of a brand name
computer having a customised setup of the OS.
Or a dealer who cares enough to take the extra time to
set a sensible screen res and colour depth, or who uses
an image file to setup new machines.

This was my point in my last post on the topic.
I was not being silly or getting into 'semantics'.

Peter Williams
LAN Support/Webmaster
williams(at)hendersons.com.au

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org]On
> Behalf Of Rick Alexander
> Subject: Re: Resoultion
> 
> 
> At 09:47 PM 1/27/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >>>Is this really true, that on all new computers, the default is set at
> >>>640x480? Can someone else verify this? This sounds too strange to be a
> >>>default on "new" computers.
> 
> It is impossible to determine for "all new computers", but......
> 
> Within the past two weeks, we have received approx 40 new computers at
> work. Of the forty, 7 were ordered with 17" monitors the rest with 15".
> 
> All arrived with 256 colors at 640x480.
> 

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