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From: hue@netcom.UUCP (Jonathan Hue)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: (Non) Square Pixels?
Keywords: cluelessness
Message-ID: <6856@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 90 06:20:43 GMT
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In article <3119@cello.UUCP> robin@reed.UUCP (Robin D. Wilson/1000000) writes:
>The machine doesn't control the shape of the pixel.  It merely sends the signal
>to the montior to GENERATE the pixels.  Only the monitor controls how they are
>shaped.  

Robin, give up.  Everything you've said about CRTs in the last month has
been wrong.

Isn't it obvious that people are talking about the aspect ratio of the pixels,
not whether the phosphor is laid down in stripes or dots on the tube?

-Jonathan