Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!macuni!ipc07!s8922967 From: s8922967@ipc07.mqcs.mq.oz.au (Murray John GILBERT) Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga Subject: Re: U Lowell board question (was Re: AMIGA 3000UX) Message-ID: <1076@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> Date: 24 Jun 91 12:02:20 GMT Article-I.D.: macuni.1076 References: <9087@gollum.twg.com> <272.filbo@deeptht.santa-cruz.ca.us> Sender: news@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz Organization: Macquarie University, School of Mathematics, Physics, Computing and Electronics Lines: 31 In article <272.filbo@deeptht.santa-cruz.ca.us> filbo@deeptht.santa-cruz.ca.us (Bela Lubkin) writes: >Dennis O'Connor wrote: > >>For Example : IMHO 1K by 768 is wasted on anything less than a >>20" monitor like the Mitsubishi Diamond Scan I view as a write >>this missive. Said monitor costs $2000. > >Come now. Maybe your eyes are that bad; mine certainly aren't. This >is being written on a 19", 1280x1024 greyscale monitor on which I can >*clearly* distinguish single-pixel differences. The "/" character in I'd like to echo that. The Sun IPCs that I use at uni (which I am logged onto right now via modem (Maestro 2400ZXR) and JrComm) are 16" beasts with resolution of 1152x900 and I can just distinguish individual pixels but no more. I get the impression that 1024x768 on a 20" monitor would look just a little 'grainy'. I prefer to look at the stuff on the screen and not be noticing the jaggies on it (or scan lines for that matter). That's I suppose why the Mac originally (512x342 res) came with a 9" screen - so that you'd think that it was real hires even though it wasn't really anything special (yes there was also the 72dpi screen to printer thingy). si ya, Murray ======================================================================= Murray Gilbert s8922967@mackay.mqcs.mq.oz.au D "Hands off the Antarctic!" =======================================================================