Does IBM offer a Trinitron(R) monitor with higher refresh rate?

Chin Fang fangchin at elaine54.Stanford.EDU
Mon May 6 13:39:56 AEST 1991


Hello,

Having worked on my RS6000 320 heavily lately,  I now really wish my 5081 16
Trinitron (R) monitor had a higher screen refresh rate.  I don't have any 
spec of it, just eyeball the thing I would guess it's being updated around
54HZ, not an outstanding value to say the least. 

Obviously IBM Austin Div. has developed a line of really fine machines, 
my 320's lively floating point point performance handily beats my SPARC 2
for the same job by at least four times! (Honestly I was quite delightfully
surprised!).  Why not put in a circuit capable of offering higher 
horizontal scanning rate (like 65Khz) and raise the monitor refresh rate 
to > 70Hz like Sun's implementation for it's SPARC series? 

Same fine Trinitron (R), superior fp performance, but a flickering monitor
really hurts.   Now I put a SPARC 1+ next to my 320 and rlogin in my 320
most of the time from my SUN SPARC.

Is it possible to get a monitor with higher refresh rate from IBM? 
 
If not, does IBM plan to offer something better in the near future?

Chin Fang
Mechanical Engineering Department
Stanford University
fangchin at leland.stanford.edu



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