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From: c60a-3hu@e260-1g.berkeley.edu (Calvin Cheng)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: What to do with the GS
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Date: 16 Feb 90 16:33:38 GMT
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In article <12154@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <1990Feb15.152154.22827@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> rnf@shumv1.ncsu.edu (Rick Fincher) writes:
>>Adding greater vertical resolution would require a more expensive monitor
>>unless you do it in interlace mode with all of the problems that involves.
>
>There are no real problems with interlacing!  Your home TV set proves it.
>The regular Apple Color monitor sold for use with the IIGS has sufficient
>phosphor density and beam focus already to support interlacing (I can
>clearly see the dark gaps between the scan lines on mine, and they're
>almost as wide as the scan line).  I don't know if the Apple Color monitor
>happens to be able to handle the particular sync that interlacing requires.
>
I've seen interlacing on the Amiga and it really sucks... I just dont
understand how some AMiga users actually find it presentable... It is 
OK to display video images (ie the kinds u see on TV) but it's unusable for
DTP or CAD work. I have this feeling that the Apple RGBColor is identical.
There's this ancient card the Videx Ultraterm 160-column card that uses
interlace display. It's fine but requires something like the MOnitor ///.
Without a long-persistence monitor, the flickering is unexceptable.

Yes, the 72dpi on the compact Macs is already a source of complain by some.
The 80dpi typical of big screen monitors is worse... and the NeXT comes
at 94dpi... It can be hard... I saw it... Let's hope the day will come
with 144dpi or even 300dpi monitors.