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Re: Wanted: Screen Saver and comments on Wrens

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From: Jeff Stearns
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1989 03:48
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Sun's "life" game (/usr/bin/lockscreen_default) is no screen saver.  It
burns the histogram of a game of life into the phosphor of your CRT.

That sentence in the lockscreen(1) manual page about "reduced phosphor
burn" was written either in ignorance or jest.  Our CRT's are burned with
the frozen images of little Sun logos.

    Jeff Stearns        John Fluke Mfg. Co, Inc.               (206) 356-5064
    jeff@tc.fluke.COM   {uw-beaver,microsoft,sun}!fluke!jeff

PS - Calling all users of the Vitalink TransLAN IV Ethernet bridge! Please
     drop me a line.
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From: jeff@tc.fluke.com (Jeff Stearns)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Wanted: Screen Saver and comments on Wrens
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Date: 31 Mar 89 03:48:07 GMT
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Original-Date: 13 Mar 89 21:21:59 GMT
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