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From: new@udel.edu (Darren New)
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Subject: Re: (Non) Square Pixels?
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Date: 14 Feb 90 17:41:04 GMT
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In article <710@shodha.dec.com> ridder@elvira.enet.dec.com (Hans Ridder) writes:
>Yes, the Mac does have square pixels.  This was one of the few Mac
>features I wished for when the Amiga first came out.

No, the Mac does not have square pixels.  At least not the early ones.
Mac programs are written to behave AS IF the pixels are square, because
the PRINTER pixels are square. But a circle on the monitor is not round.
(Maybe the MacII has round circles, but the Mac SE or Plus does not.)

For evidence, look at the paramters to the printer device on a Mac.
One of them is a flag whether you want to use square printer Pixels
or whether you want to adjust the printer to print what you see on
the screen.

The basic difference is that the Mac considers hardcopy more important
than video and the Amiga does not.          -- Darren