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From: jonah@dgp.toronto.edu (Jeff Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: hi-res monitors
Message-ID: <1990Nov15.100309.20550@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Date: 15 Nov 90 15:03:09 GMT
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rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:

>gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:

>> Why don't we see monitors that are 2048*1532, at 150 dpi?  Would the
>> radiation from the high-frequency modulators fry your brains?

>There are some monitors with 150 dpi resolution.  Princeton has had one for
>a year or more; Cornerstone (which makes the controller for that Princeton
>monitor) has had a large-screen 120 dpi for a while and I think now has a
>large-screen 150 dpi.  They're not cheap...and part of the reason is the
>frequencies at which they have to operate.  (It's unwieldy to connect the
>monitor to the machine with a waveguide.:-)  

MegaScan makes some B/W monitors that are 4096x3300 at 300 dpi (a
1.5Gbit video rate).  They also have displays with built in bitblit and
100Mbit/s fiber-optics interfaces.  Supposedly have a 12bit grayscale
monitor at 200dpi.  I don't dare ask the price.