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From: anthony@gucis.sct.gu.edu.au (Anthony Thyssen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: TURN COMPUTER OFF OR LEAVE ON?
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.003043.28563@gucis.sct.gu.edu.au>
Date: 6 Jun 91 00:30:43 GMT
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GUTEST8@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be (Ives Aerts) writes:
>On the point of screen blankers. We have here a little network
>of ps2/s running aix (ibm's version of unix) and they too have
>a screen blanker installed under x-windows. But.... the screen
>'blanker' displays a WHITE screen with a moving black X on it |||
>What's the point ? Burning in the screen as hard as you can
>while the user isn't there ????? Someone who can explain this ?
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Only static (unchanging) displays burn in  the screen as the same pixels
would always be on. A moving display uses different pixels and only a small
number normally, thus the image is not `burned' into the screen.