Timeline for Why do PCs boot in 720x400 resolution?
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| Nov 11, 2022 at 2:36 | comment | added | aybe | Don't forget that back then, pixels were not square. | |
| Nov 11, 2022 at 1:43 | comment | added | Fred Qian | A side question (perhaps not very constructive): why was the aspect ratio of 720x400 so close to the now-ubiquitous 16:9 wide screens? | |
| S May 20, 2021 at 0:15 | history | suggested | Ola Ström |
Added a tag
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| May 19, 2021 at 23:17 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| May 19, 2020 at 19:05 | comment | added | Mawg | In case there is a blem wit | |
| May 18, 2020 at 21:10 | comment | added | chrylis -cautiouslyoptimistic- | Hysterical raisins. | |
| May 18, 2020 at 8:23 | vote | accept | aybe | ||
| May 18, 2020 at 2:45 | answer | added | manassehkatz-Moving 2 Codidact | timeline score: 8 | |
| May 17, 2020 at 16:52 | history | became hot network question | |||
| May 17, 2020 at 16:44 | comment | added | user722 | All the ATI/AMD cards I've hard in the last 15 years or so boot in 1280x1024 if they detect that flat panel is connected. It's actually 720x400 (or 640x350 or whatever resolution the BIOS selects) upscaled to 1280x1024 | |
| May 17, 2020 at 10:34 | history | edited | hippietrail | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
display tag works a bit better than screen, which is specifically hardware
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| May 17, 2020 at 10:02 | answer | added | Justme | timeline score: 13 | |
| May 17, 2020 at 9:23 | answer | added | StarCat | timeline score: 94 | |
| May 17, 2020 at 8:49 | history | asked | aybe | CC BY-SA 4.0 |