Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tellab5!wiseman
From: wiseman@tellab5.tellabs.com (Jeff Wiseman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Little moniters, big ideas
Message-ID: <2231@tellab5.tellabs.com>
Date: 12 Mar 90 18:29:43 GMT
References: <81927@tiger.oxy.edu>
Reply-To: wiseman@tellab5.UUCP (Jeff Wiseman)
Organization: Tellabs, Inc. Lisle IL
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In article <81927@tiger.oxy.edu> adams.e@oxy.edu (Erik Adams) writes:
>Howdy net people,
>
>This question is purely academic.  Why is there such a large portion of
>unused space on the "compact" mac screen?  On my 512ke, there's about
>1/2 an inch between the edge of the screen and the desktop.  It seems
>to me that it ought to be possible to squeek in another 10 pixels on
>all sides.

I'm not sure that the "unused" space is supposed to be there in the first
place. From somewhere way back I acquired a test program that would put a
display on the screen based on the standard number of pixels (what is it? 72
per inch?). Anyway, The display was a grid of 1 inch squares based on this
"standard". As it turned out, the 1 inch squares on my screen were less than
one inch each. If they were the size that they are supposed to be, I would have
virtually no unused space at the edges of my screen.

It seems that in order to have a nice display (no distortion on the edges of a
perhaps "moderate quality crt tube) you have to shrink the image to keep it
away from the edges.

I'm not sure I like this but a macs a mac I guess.


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