Chapter 13. Video Hardware
Video Display Technologies
Although video display technologies are as vital to a PC’s user interface as the mouse and keyboard, the video display is actually a latecomer to computing. Before CRT monitors came into general use, the teletypewriter was the standard computer interface—a large, loud device that printed the input and output characters on a roll of paper.
The first CRT displays used on computers were primitive by today’s standards; they displayed only text in a single color (usually green), but to users at the time they were a great improvement, allowing real-time display of input and output data. Over time, color displays were introduced, screen sizes increased, and LCD technologies moved from the portable computer ...
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