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Article #6694Re: Size of New Mac Screen
From: Ericson
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 1986 17:27
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 1986 17:27
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>[ in posting <158@cbnap.UUCP>, W. H. Pollock writes:
> I've heard many disconcerting rumors that the next generation Mac will
> have a 12" diagonal screen. This means that the effective vertical screen
...
> Please (oh please oh please) give me a screen that can display 8.5 x 11!!!
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> W. H. Pollock,
> UUCP: ...{ihnp4,cbatt}!cbnap!whp
> DELPHI: WHP
> GEnie: W.POLLOCK
Better yet, why not leave the decision up to the user. Sure, I would
like the *OPTION* of a large screen (How about desk-sized some day, eh?)
yet many users may only want a screen that allows them to use larger
fonts for mor visibility or whatever. We shouldn't all have to pay the
price of a 19 or 21 inch monitor if we don't need it (they are
expensive when big!), not to mention a LARGE memory overhead for a
big graphics display. (Let's see, 22K for the 9' screen, probably
80-150K for a large screen - that's quite a chunk of memory to
maintain) As long as the monitors have SQUARE pixels, (to eliminate
the aspect-ratio problems that haunt all other PC's) and
Apple gives us a flexible screen driver, we should be able to
buy what we need/want. That is the point of an open (read flexible)
system!
Yeah, I would like a big screen too.
--
Stuart Ericson
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbatt!cbosgd!ihnp4!ihlpf!stuart From: stuart@ihlpf.UUCP (Ericson) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: Size of New Mac Screen Message-ID: <636@ihlpf.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Aug-86 13:27:56 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlpf.636 Posted: Wed Aug 6 13:27:56 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Aug-86 01:31:32 EDT References: <158@cbnap.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 32