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Screen standards, Appendix h screen standards, Hscreen standards – Texas Instruments 4000M User Manual

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Screen Standards

This appendix summarizes the screen standards supported
by your computer’s internal display adapter.

VGA

(Video Graphics Array)

The

VGA

standard supports 640-by-480 pixel monochrome

or 16 of 64 color graphics and 320-by-200 pixel 256-color
graphics. The

VGA

standard uses an 8-by-16 pixel character

box for text display.

Your computer’s

LCD

supports

VGA

by displaying text in an

80-column by 25-line text display with 16 shades of gray
(selectable from 64 shades) in an 8-by-16 pixel character
box in a 640-by-400 pixel area centered on the display.

Your computer also supports color graphics by displaying
colors as 64 shades of gray in two modes:

Resolution: 320-by-200 pixels with 256 shades of gray mapped
into 64 shades

One pixel is converted to a 2

×

2 cell

Display area:

640

×

400

Resolution: 640-by-480 with 64 shades of gray

One pixel is displayed as a 1

×

1 cell

Display area:

640

×

480

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