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From: donm@pnet07.cts.com (Don Maslin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: TURN COMPUTER OFF OR LEAVE ON?
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.184503.21593@baron.uucp>
Date: 6 Jun 91 18:45:03 GMT
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anthony@gucis.sct.gu.edu.au (Anthony Thyssen) writes:
>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 ?
>>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>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. 

But if the screen displays white, are not *all* of the pixels on except for
those in the moving black 'X' ???

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