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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Duet card reservations (was:Re: GS/MAC card)
Message-ID: <14065@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 9 Oct 90 12:59:33 GMT
References: <9010081947.AA13443@cwns11.INS.CWRU.Edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <9010081947.AA13443@cwns11.INS.CWRU.Edu> aa404@cleveland.Freenet.Edu writes:
>I must admit, I often wonder why they didn't have true Square pixels on the
>GS.  It would solve many problems.

Obviously, because acceptable display quality in color at 640x400 or so
(which is what would produce approximately "square pixels", as you call
them), would have cost far more than Apple thought the IIGS customers
would be willing to pay.

Actually, "squareness" (1:1 aspect ratio) is not particularly important
for most purposes, the main exception being displaying a raster image
made for that resolution on some other system.