On January 30, Tim Rightnour wrote:
> #   Sounds like a monitor adjustment issue...the cg6 is a
> # single-sync-rate card, so inter-mode alignment variations aren't
> # really the result of framebuffer-ish things.  I've seen many monitors,
> # however, whose images would exhibit shrinkage that seemed to
> # correspond with the amount of non-dark areas on the display...a
> # current draw thing, I'd guess.
> 
> I assume you mean I would need to adjust all the knobs..  being that there
> aren't any.. I assume that means "live with it"

  Sure there are...*inside* the monitor. :-)

> And *OH* how I've been struggling to get away from the PC world..  Bought an
> alpha.. spent a month screaming at it pulling hair, thinking the MB was toast
> (multia) only to find out my memory was bad...  God I want to get that alpha
> booted..  Number one thing I like about non-pc's is the hardware boot
> consoles..  like the DEC SRM, and the OpenBoot.  God they are so much nicer
> than "stick a floppy in and pray" or shutdown==reboot==halt it's nice to reboot
> a machine without having to hit a button.  ;)

  Yeah, I agree...it's very nice to have something USEFUL in the ROM.
PCs have come a long way in that regard, but they're still not even
close to the utility of, say, the ROM monitor on the KA650 board...a
10-year-old VAX processor. :-/


           -Dave