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From: hlsw_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (D. Hollinsworth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Want -> REAL <- Screen Saver
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Date: 26 Apr 91 22:39:03 GMT
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In article <875@adimail.UUCP> tel@adimail.UUCP (Terry Monks) writes:
>Isn't this dangerous?We use screen savers so that we save the screen from being
>burnt out when a image is displayed in the same position for a long time. But
>if you make the screen black, all those electrons are back there at the gun,
>just yearning to be free, and probably burning out the X or Y deflection
>amplifiers. Yowch. On the same subject, why doesn't Apple just burn out the
>top of the screen when they ship. That way they wouldn't have to black out the
>menu bar in InitMenus.

So would it be preferable to have a completely WHITE screen instead of a
completely black one?  How 'bout a module for that one?


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