Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Sun's Competitive Strategy (Was: Re: P1754 Message-ID: <3010@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Date: 7 Dec 90 17:04:57 GMT References: <1990Nov16.225515.494@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Nov25.194404.3376@dircon.uucp> <1635@unix386.Convergent.COM> <1990Dec2.014554.3491@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) Distribution: na Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY Lines: 26 In article kls30@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) writes: | >Manufacturers who don't understand English, either conversational | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | Well I guess NeXT, IBM, PC Magazine, Sony, Mitsubishi, NEC, Relisys, | Accuvue, JVC, and Nanao all need to go back and learn english. Resolution | in standard terms, used in manufacturers literature states resolution | is (some num.)x(some num.) and dpi is specified seperately. So I'll | say that resolution is a function of both dpi and number of dots on the | screen. Manufacturers ad agencies will say anything which sells hardware. The better ones don't lie, but they all use confusing verbiage and quote totally meaningless facts. By the standard of number of pixels, the bunch of drunks at a football game holding up flash cards a meter square have more resolution than the best display you can buy. If you want 6000x500 "resulution" and a *real long* persistance, this is the display for you. I have been guilty of using this terminology, but I at least understand that it is a misnomer and would not try to defend it as correct usage. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use unix.