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From: leonard@qiclab.uucp (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: 120 columns displayed on VGA??
Message-ID: <1990Dec7.035035.5842@qiclab.uucp>
Date: 7 Dec 90 03:50:35 GMT
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mvolo@uncecs.edu (Michael R. Volow) writes:

>In trying to get screen approximately 120 characters wide, if one used
>proportional screen fonts, not all the letters would have to be 5
>pixels wide.

Yes, but since an *awful* lot of wide material is in the form of columnar
data, this solution is less than useful. And it's not the sort of thing
that can be handled without a *big* driver.

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