kdale@BBNCC-EUR.arpa (Keith Dale) (04/29/86)
I'm posting this for a friend: How well does the IBM Color Monitor (*not* the Enhanced monitor) work with the Enhanced Graphics Adapter? Bad enough to warrent the purchase of an enhanced monitor or well enough for the casual user? The user uses Wordstar 2000, MS Windows, and Symphony. Sorry to post to info-micro rather than the digested info-ibmpc, but we need some replies fairly soon - by tomorrow, if possible. Thanks! Keith <kdale@bbncc-eur.arpa>
jcm@ORNL-MSR.arpa (James A. Mullens) (04/29/86)
I use the EGA with the Color Monitor (both are IBM factory parts). I'm not sure what you meant by "how well does it work?" The EGA has switches to tailor its operation for the color monitor, i.e., its resolution is only 640 x 200 instead of 640 x 350 for the Enhanced Color Monitor. You do get 16 colors though instead of 2 as with the CGA card. I have noticed a little blending of colors on the Color Monitor. One color can appear as a slightly different shade on different parts of the screen. This has not been noticeable enough to be a real bother. When I use my regular color monitor for text processing, I shring the vertical size (that's shrink, sorry) so that the characters are denser. I think this helps -- in fact I don't mind doing word processing for hours on the display. I use a monochrome and an Enhanced monitor at work, yet don't notice the difference when I go home to my regular Color Monitor. jim mullens oak ridge national lab