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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 'Virtual Monitors'
Message-ID: <6042@internal.Apple.COM>
Date: 6 Jan 90 01:10:39 GMT
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In article <1093@crash.cts.com> uzun@pnet01.cts.com (Roger Uzun) writes:
> Well in a way tha is true, but programs allow the user to pick the 
resoltion
> and screen depth when applicable.  

Well it seems that this puts extra burden on the programmer to provide a 
way to select the screen depth, while on the Macintosh it is built into 
the system.

> that the OS has chosen.  The disadvantage is some loss in performance
> (seen any 60 Frame per second, INTERACTIVE, arcade animation on a mac 
ii?)

You are right about the performance.  The Macintosh model is to put the 
choice directly in the user's hands.  The user can choose a 1-bit screen 
for maximum performance a 32-bit screen for the maximum number of colors, 
or something in between.

Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.
Object Specialist

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