Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: OS cost component of workstation Message-ID: Date: 8 Nov 90 13:21:05 GMT References: <2840@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <1990Nov6.222057.17797@ico.isc.com> <239@csinc.UUCP> <1553@svin02.info.win.tue.nl> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 7 In article <1553@svin02.info.win.tue.nl> rcpieter@svin02.info.win.tue.nl (Tiggr) writes: > 640x480 is barely suitable for displaying even a single window. I'm sitting in front of a (click, click, click) 684 by *217* display that holds an 80 by 25 window, including several dozen pixels of borders and available backdrop. A multisync monitor would be nice, but in real life you don't really need all that display. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com