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- From: roland@quadsys.com (Roland Besserer)
- Subject: Re: 16" colour or 19" grayscale?
- Message-ID: <By42n8.74I@quadsys.com>
- Organization: QUAD Systems
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- References: <peter.722014802@merlin>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 09:35:32 GMT
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- peter@merlin.acadiau.ca (Peter Steele) writes:
- : We are about to buy one of the new Sun LX workstations and I
- : have to choose either 16" colour or 19" grayscale. I presently
- : work on an SLC, which is 17" monochrome. I like small fonts
- : so I can get lots of xterms (most people can't read my screen
- : if they're looking over my shoulder). I suspect I would not
- : be able to use fonts this small on a colour monitor, although
- : I've never used X for any length of time on a colour system.
- : I'd like to hear people's opinions on what to pick--colour
- : or grayscale?
-
- I've used both a 1600x1280 monochrome 21" display and now a Sony 16" color
- display extensively. I would say your choice depends really on your
- application. If your basically coding software and running xterms I'd
- stick with a highres monochrome screen, but only matters if you get a
- highres graphics card. If you use the standard SUN resolution graphics,
- I'd go with the color screen. The 3-D look of OW is very nice and I've
- dicovered that the smaller screen requires less eye movements to focus
- on different sections of the display and is less tiring. I also liek that
- teh chars seems crisper.
-
- --
-
- Roland Besserer
- QUAD Systems
- roland@quadsys.com
-