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From: mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Hexagonal Pixels
Message-ID: <22163@cup.portal.com>
Date: 15 Sep 89 01:43:09 GMT
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mckee@canisius.UUCP says:

> Just today I was discussing with a professor of mine about the use of
> hexagonal pixels.  Someone that I had talked to at Siggraph this year
> was telling me about how "in France there are monitors which use
> hexagonal pixels", yet my prof still believes that if a hexagonal

I heard that in France the floppy disks have a hole for the disk head
which goes from the center to a corner, unlike the rest of the world who
use disks with holes that go from the center to a side.

Typical French incompatibility by design.