Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!carbon!stanford.edu!eos!aio!dnsurber From: dnsurber@lescsse.jsc.nasa.gov (Douglas Surber) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Apps incompatible with System 7.0 Message-ID: Date: 28 Jun 91 13:58:30 GMT References: <1371@kosman.UUCP> <2828@amethyst.math.arizona.edu> Sender: news@aio.jsc.nasa.gov (USENET News System) Reply-To: dsurber@nasamail.nasa.gov Organization: nasa-jsc Lines: 38 In <2828@amethyst.math.arizona.edu> Jahnke@brahms.biosci.arizona.edu (Jerome Jahnke) writes: >Now if they would just do away with black and >white machines my life would again be simple. Your not going to get my black and white tube until you pry it from my cold, dead fingers. :-) But seriously, I am a programmer, and as such I spend my entire day looking at text on my tube. Black and white monitors display much sharper text than color monitors. After spending many hours each day looking at text on both b&w and color monitors, I find that my eyes are much less tired with b&w. I know somebody is going to say that color monitors are just as sharp, so I will disagree with you in advance. First of all the phosphor coating on a b&w monitor is a continuous coating so all of the little white dots bleed together into a smooth even region. On color monitors the phosphor coating is a buch of descrete spots, of three different colors. Each little "white" dot is actually composed of three tiny blobs of phosphor, one red, one green, one blue. When you consider that a period (.) in your average 10 or 12 point font is just one pixel, then it is pretty clear to me that the separate phosphors are easily discernable from normal viewing distances. On a tv this is not as much of a problem since you view it from multiple feet away, but my eyes are about 24 inches from my monitor and from that distance the separate phosphors are visible. Someday when I have a spare $1000 or so I intend to add a color monitor to my Mac II so I can play Tetris in color, but with the new notebook Macs and my car catching on fire, that may not happen for a while. -- Douglas Surber Internet: dsurber@nasamail.nasa.gov Lockheed NASAmail: dsurber/jsc/nasa Houston, Texas Phone: 713-282-6240 Life can be only understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.