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From: stuart@ihlpf.UUCP (Ericson)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Size of New Mac Screen
Message-ID: <636@ihlpf.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-Aug-86 13:27:56 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  6 13:27:56 1986
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>[ in posting  <158@cbnap.UUCP>, W. H. Pollock writes:
> I've heard many disconcerting rumors that the next generation Mac will
> have a 12" diagonal screen.  This means that the effective vertical screen
  ...
> Please (oh please oh please) give me a screen that can display 8.5 x 11!!!
  ...
> W. H. Pollock,
> UUCP:	...{ihnp4,cbatt}!cbnap!whp
> DELPHI:	WHP
> GEnie:	W.POLLOCK

Better yet, why not leave the decision up to the user.  Sure, I would
like the *OPTION* of a large screen (How about desk-sized some day, eh?)
yet many users may only want a screen that allows them to use larger
fonts for mor visibility or whatever.  We shouldn't all have to pay the
price of a 19 or 21 inch monitor if we don't need it (they are 
expensive when big!), not to mention a LARGE memory overhead for a
big graphics display.  (Let's see, 22K for the 9' screen, probably
80-150K for a large screen - that's quite a chunk of memory to 
maintain)   As long as the monitors have SQUARE pixels, (to eliminate
the aspect-ratio problems that haunt all other PC's) and
Apple gives us a flexible screen driver, we should be able to
buy what we need/want.  That is the point of an open (read flexible)
system!

Yeah, I would like a big screen too.  
-- 
Stuart Ericson
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