Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!agate!ucbvax!hplabs!hpfcso!hpfcdj!jayavant From: jayavant@hpfcdj.HP.COM (Rajeev Jayavant) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Re: Useful? (was OS cost component of workstation) Message-ID: <16870003@hpfcdj.HP.COM> Date: 14 Nov 90 20:23:01 GMT References: Organization: Hewlett Packard -- Fort Collins, CO Lines: 17 / hpfcdj:comp.arch / gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu / 7:22 pm Nov 12, 1990 / >> Why don't we see monitors that are 2048*1532, at 150 dpi? Would the >> radiation from the high-frequency modulators fry your brains? How much money do you have to spend? :-) I haven't priced 2048*1532 monitors recently, but they were in at least the $20K ballpark not long ago. You also now have roughly 4x the pixels as before, so you have to render 4x as fast just to have the appearance of equivalent performance. Graphics hardware cost starts going up pretty fast compared to today's megapixel displays. Rajeev ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rajeev Jayavant (rajeev@hpfcla.hp.com) "Excuse me, I've lost my marbles" Hewlett Packard - Graphics Technology Division - P. Opus, [Bloom County]