Re: Will Second Sight work w/PC Transpor

[skadesh@mv.us.adobe.com (Seth Kadesh)]

In article <9503162123591.The_Win-D.antares@delphi.com> antares@delphi.com (Leonard Lanigan) writes:
>Jawaid,
>Does this mean that the PCT will give only CGA resolution on the VGA monitor
>with Second Sight, or that it will not function AT ALL, and the PCT will
>still require a second monitor?

Here's the deal:

	Device		Outputs		Connects to
	------		-------		-----------
	normal GS	GS-RGB		GS monitor (and a few others)
	PCT		CGA		CGA monitor
	Second Sight	VGA		VGA monitor

The difference between CGA and VGA is not only in terms of resolution or
available colors.  CGA and VGA operate at different frequencies -- CGA uses
a much lower frequency than VGA does.  I don't know what the numbers are,
and I don't remember whether it's just the vertical, just the horizontal,
or both that differ.

But the gist of it all is that the PCT cannot provide CGA output to a VGA
monitor.

(There are multisynch monitors which MAY go low enough to take CGA and high
enough to take VGA, but I don't think they're very common).

So yeah, it looks like you're stuck with two monitors.

>To me, the greatest advantage of the Second Sight is simply the reduction in
>the amount of space taken up with monitors, rather than any improvement in
>resolution. 

The only way this happens is if you have two seperate computers, and they
share the same monitor.  But I like to be able to have two computers
running at the same time....

-seth
skadesh@adobe.com