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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: JR-Comm VT100 emulation
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Date: 3 Jan 91 08:11:22 GMT
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In <660@faatcrl.UUCP>, jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan) writes:
>xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>
>>Its only 20 of the possible 78(?) extra pixels of overscan, which means
>>if you were running on your own screen, and borderless you could do it
>>pretty easily, and it would be a handy mode.
>
>  The overscan is not the problem, it's the sub-standard appearance that
>a 5 pixel wide font has.  I'd have no argument not to add 132 columns if
>it looked good, but it simply looks ugly.

To you it looks ugly. To others, it might not. To you, the ugliness outweighs
the utility. To others, it is REQUIRED that it do 132, regardless of
appearance, in order for it to be usable as a VT100. Additionally, a higher
resolution display is available for the Amiga (Hedley, Moniterm, etc.), which
may or may not look ugly, even to you.

>>Moreover, if you (now or later) make JRComm compatible with one of the
>>better resolution optional displays, you could do a spectacularly good
>>job at 1024^2.
>
>  I've got no problems with adding 132 columns once the system can support
>it in a visually pleasing fashion, but not on the current system.

Kent has just pointed out that higher resolution displays _CAN_ support it in a
visually pleasing manner. Others have pointed out (albeit in a rather
condescending and obnoxious manner, in one case), that they require 132
columns, so it could be assumed that they find the current display to be
adequate to the task.

It's your program, and thus, your call. Just remember that the REAL difference
between the Mac and the Amiga is that the Mac constitutes Apple's idea of
what's right, regardless of user requirements or tastes.

-larry

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