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From: omalley@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Hardware screen savers (Re: The next screen saver feature?)
Message-ID: <5532@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 16 Sep 90 22:31:46 GMT
References: <13599@hydra.gatech.EDU> <11276@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
Reply-To: omalley@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley)
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
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In article <11276@spool.cs.wisc.edu> tonyrich@titanic.cs.wisc.edu (Anthony
Rich) writes:
>I'm hoping the next feature will be added by Apple:  Screen-blanking
>protection in hardware.

I once saw an Apple Lisa with a dimmed screen ... move the mouse and it
came up to full brightness.  But I have no clue whether it was hardware
or software.

If it was hardware, then that's even more reason that Apple should add
similar functionality to the Mac line.

-John
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