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From: malone@cod.NOSC.MIL (John P. Malone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Full-Page monitors in 'landscape' mode ?
Message-ID: <1514@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 27 Apr 89 23:08:41 GMT
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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 I have questions for the Mac community regarding usage of upright,
'portrait' orientated, display monitors - the so-called Full Page
displays. Briefly, I'd like to know if you can turn these hummers
on their side and use them in a 'landscape' mode.

 I plan to upgrade to an SE/30 and then to big display monitor over
the next 12 months. I feel a gray scale full-page display will suit
my needs, but for other than word processing I'd sure like to use it
with the long axis in the horizontal position. This may be a personal
quirk, but my mental 'desk top' is wide & shallow. Not skinny & deep.
Plus my mouse moves left & right better than up & down - maybe thats
my wrist, not the mouse.

 Questions-
   1. Is their any software that allows rotation of the display by 90
      Deg. that is independent of any hardware considerations?
   2. Is there a software/hardware combination that will allow for the
      90 Deg. shift? Proprietary or product dependency is assumed.
   3. Can this scheme even be accomplished using conventional monitor
      video display/raster display electronics characteristics?

 Much thanks, 
 r/ Pat
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