Re: Resoultion

by Richard Speidel <silussa(at)earthlink.net>

Date:	Thu, 28 Jan 1999 11:40:14 -0500
To:	hwg-graphics(at)mail.hwg.org
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At 01:55 AM 1/28/99 , Rick Alexander wrote:
>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.

The problem here isn't with the shippers, unless you count not adjusting
the machines appropriately before they ship to be the problem.

Win 95/98 is set by default to work on the minimum requirements. That means
640x480x256c, which EVERY video card supports. (well, there may be a few
monochrome holdouts out there somewhere, but I haven't seen them.)

Richard K Speidel
Digital Dragon
email: richard(at)digitaldragon.netbox.com
http://www.wp.com/digitaldragon

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