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From: Sonny.Shrivastava@f555.n161.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Sonny Shrivastava)
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Subject: Re: Hardware Screen Savers (Re: T
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Date: 23 Sep 90 10:02:16 GMT
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Why is it necessary to have screen saving implemented in hardware?  Seems to 
me that Pyro, After Dark, and a host of public domain/shareware screen 
blanking utilities do a more than adequate job.  Why needlessly add more 
components to the motherboard, just to blank the screen?
 
What would be better would be for Apple to implement some form of screen 
blanking as a standard feature of their System software.  I would go for 
that.  But then you'd get complaints from companies which make screen 
blanking software.

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