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From: bwhite@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Bill White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Screensaver (again)
Summary: Yes and no.
Message-ID: <1173@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU>
Date: 1 Mar 90 06:41:57 GMT
References: <1874@clyde.concordia.ca>
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Organization: Ohio University CS Dept., Athens
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In article <1874@clyde.concordia.ca>, agostino@sherlock.cs.concordia.ca (DELIGIA agostino) writes:
> 
> I looked at Maccel2 (mouse accelerator) and it has a screensaver.  Actually,
> what it does is to altenately (every 15 sec) display the screen in normal and 
> reverse video.  Does this actually protect the screen over long periods of
> time?
> 
	Well, yes and no.  It would keep a PATTERN from burning in, but not
keep the monitor from losing overall brightness.  I've seen some old terminals
which were set up to reverse the screen every n seconds as a screen saver,
and in spite of this, they still got dim.
	Besides, if you use your computer for a wide variety of applications,
then pattern burnin is hardly going to be the problem that overall burnin
would be.  Of course, if you just kept it sitting in the desktop, sure the
icons would burn in.  But how many of us do that?

					Bill White
					bwhite@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu