Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Path: utzoo!utstat!philip
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: Pixel squareness (was:Re: Duet card reservations (was:Re: GS/MAC card))
Message-ID: <1990Oct10.233756.24793@utstat.uucp>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 90 23:37:56 GMT
References: <9010081947.AA13443@cwns11.INS.CWRU.Edu> <14065@smoke.BRL.MIL> <7659@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
Organization: Statistics, U. of Toronto

In article <7659@darkstar.ucsc.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:

[more about square pixels...deleted]

The issue of aspect ratio is just a scaling problem. Thus you find some
DOS laptops which don't adjust for a 1-1 aspect ratio and circles turn
into ellipses. Others, however, do and circles-> circles even on a
rectangular monitor.

My ex-HP Unix computer had an decidedly rectangular (flat) screen. My circles
were always circles!

Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto
philip@utstat.toronto.edu
[my opinions]