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- From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
- Subject: Re: larger/higher resolution displays
- Message-ID: <Bt5rD7.1rw@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 02:39:05 GMT
- References: <1992Aug15.211229.11002@ccorp.uucp> <1992Aug17.222036.29571@crd.ge.com>
- Organization: The Programmer's Pit Stop, Ann Arbor MI
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- In article <1992Aug17.222036.29571@crd.ge.com> davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
- > Now, even if you spend the money for a very fine dot pitch, you will
- >find that the human eye limits you, and you have to get very close to
- >the display to read reasonable text. 1024 on a good 15 inch display is
- >useful, but if the price were right I would go to 20.
-
- The major problem here, I think, is a basic misunderstanding. When
- you go to 1024x768 on a 14" monitor, you're not usually trying to make
- the text smaller so you can cram more on the screen. (Like I said,
- usually.) Instead, you want to keep the text about the same size as
- you might use at 800x600, but have finer characters with a bigger
- character box.
-
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