Re: Y positive up or down?

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1986 18:36

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The Blit terminals at Bell Labs use Y-positive-down.  One of the things
those folks have said in discussing their software is that if they were
doing it over again, they would seriously consider changing this.  (Don't
remember the exact words, but that was the sense of it.)
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry

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