Subject: Re: Alpha vr Monitor
To: NetBSD/alpha Discussion List <port-alpha@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 04/14/2003 18:56:06
On Monday, April 14, 2003, at 01:56 PM, Greg A. Woods wrote:
>> First of all, I said you needed a 13w3 connector, but I should have 
>> said
>> 5-bnc.  (13w3 is a funny connector you find on Sun products.)
>
> Sun is far from alone, and perhaps not even first, in using the D-shell
> 13w3 connector for video monitors.
>
> 	<URL:http://www.monitorworld.com/Cables/video_standards.html>

   Indeed...and quite smart to do so; cheap non-coaxial VGA cables 
radiate EMI like small stars when monitors are driven at useful 
resolutions.

   From my perspective, those HD15 "VGA" connectors are rare and rather 
nonstandard.

         -Dave

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Dave McGuire           "She's a cheek pincher.  I have scars."
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