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Subject: Re: 600 MHz Touch-screen IBM computer $700 [OT]

Author: Keith Ian Price

Date: 16:26:04 05/09/02

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On May 09, 2002 at 16:37:53, Roy Eassa wrote:

>Back in the mid-'80s VGA meant specifically 640x480 with 16 colors and SVGA was
>used to describe *anything* better than that, including 640x480 with 64 or 256
>colors.  Of course, that's so long ago that a 80286 was considered fast if it
>ran at 8 MHz rather than 6 MHz, 800x600 was almost unheard-of, EGA (640x350) was still the most common, and some people still had CGA (640x200)!  :-)

Oh yes, I know. I meant in the last few years it has come to mean 800x600
everywhere. Roy, you've got to stop living in the past! It's the 21st-century,
man! ;-)

kp



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