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From: arlie@news.thepoint.net (Arlie Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Advice for low cost 17" monitor..
Date: 30 Jun 1995 12:11:51 -0400
Organization: ThePoint - Kentuckiana's Internet Connection
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j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:

>Don't
>trust anybody promising you 1280x1024 on a 17" monitor, he's promising
>you a picture with the finest lines finer than the dot pitch.

I'm using a CTX 17" monitor at 1280x1024, and it's _beautiful_.
The pixels are so square and so crisp that I cry when I look at my 14"
monitor running 1024x768 or even 800x600.

-- arlie
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