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From: ifarqhar@mqccsunc.mqcc.mq.OZ (Ian Farquhar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga - only a home computer?
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Date: 16 Feb 90 01:28:39 GMT
References: <02206.AA02206@sosaria> <131511@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
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In article <131511@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> fiddler@concertina.Sun.COM (Steve Hix) writes:
>has jaggies...albeit at 300 dpi.  Even a 2400bpi PostScript laser setter
>has jaggies.  You might need a microscope to see them.  But they're still
>there.

Actually, they are "roundies", because the optics just cannot focus a
square down to that size.  This has a quite nice side-effect, because
roundies are far less objectionable than jaggies.

"AI is also an acronym for Artificial Ignorance"

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