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From: dalekim@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Dale Kim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: 40 to 80
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Date: 31 Aug 90 15:32:16 GMT
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Reply-To: dalekim@cory.Berkeley.EDUIn article <33361@cup.portal.com> Ordania-DM@cup.portal.com (Charles K Hughes) writes:
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>  There are several ways to get 80 columns on your 800xl.  Each way depends 
>somewhat on what you want to do.
>  The easiest way is to buy the XEP80 module.  The XEP80 works with BOBTERM
...
>  The next way is with 80 columns done in software.  There are one or two 
>terminal programs (they stink) that use this.  Very few programs work with 
>software 80 columns, mainly because it requires so much memory (8k).  I have
>a good monitor, and software 80 columns looks terrible on it.
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What is the aesthetic difference between the XEP80 and software 80 columns?
My understanding is that the XEP80 uses the 320 X 192 graphics mode to emulate
an 80 X 24 text mode (just like the software method), so why wouldn't the two
80 column methods look identical?

-Dale