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- From: anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
- Subject: Re: Tiny, 24x80 flat terminal.
- Date: 6 Jan 1993 04:08:30 GMT
- Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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- In article <3958@key.COM> rburns@key.COM (Randy Burns) writes:
-
- >How was this done? Is there a graphics mode of the 95LX which has 640x200
- >resolution? My impression was that the 95LX screen was something like
- >320x128 resolution-I don't see how you could get a readable font with
- >4x5 bits allowed per character. It would be _very_ nice to have a readable
- >fast 80 character font for viewing files and such.
-
- The 95 display is 240x128. The fnt80x25 program uses 3x5 character
- cells with no space between the cells. The text is actually quite
- readable although I have never tried using it for more than a few
- minutes at a time. Similar fonts have been used used on older machines
- like the Atari and Commodore home computers. Discussions still come up
- on the topic there.
-
- Here's a sample, stand back about 15 feet to get the full effect :-)
-
- # # ## #
- ################ # ######
- ## ## # ######## ## #
- #### ## # ## # #### #
- ################ # ## #
-
- ##### #### ########## #
- # ## ## # ## # # # #
- #### ## # ### ## # ####
- # ## ## # ## # # ## #
- # ### #### #### #### #
-
- Ouch, I got a headache just typing that up. If you can't see it, it's
- "abcdefgh" and "ABCDEFGH". There's a 60x20 program that doesn't
- squeeze it together as much. Larger machines like the Sharp, Zeos,
- Fujtsu, Memorex, etc have full 640x200 CGA displays and are much easier
- to look at for 80x25 displays, although the text is still tiny.
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