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Article #1168Re: WANTED: terminal emulator
From: R.P.A.Collinson
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 1986 23:30
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 1986 23:30
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Hmm.. well the Monochrome ST has 640 pixels across the screen. 640/132=4.84 (recurring) - this is a bit little to see. In fact, I think that the 6*6 character set in the ST (106 characters) is too small to do any real work with. I used the 8*8 character set for a bit and found this tiring - this was not because of the smallness of the characters but that the aspect ratio was wrong, I think. The letters in words were too far apart. I have found that the best small set is one derived from the 8*8 set - a 7*8 set is possible to work with but only gives 91 screen characters. I add two extra lines between the characters giving me a 40 line, 91 character wide terminal. My conclusion therefore is that 132 character wide terminals are not really possible on the ST for humans not equipped with binoculars.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!caip!topaz!husc6!seismo!mcvax!ukc!pc From: pc@ukc.ac.uk (R.P.A.Collinson) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16 Subject: Re: WANTED: terminal emulator Message-ID: <1681@eagle.ukc.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 8-Jul-86 19:30:15 EDT Article-I.D.: eagle.1681 Posted: Tue Jul 8 19:30:15 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jul-86 06:08:50 EDT References: <268@sunybcs.UUCP> Reply-To: pc@ukc.ukc.ac.uk (R.P.A.Collinson) Organization: U of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, UK Lines: 16 Keywords: 132 columns