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- From: sandy@godzilla.quotron.com (Sanford Zelkovitz)
- Subject: Re: larger/higher resolution monitors
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.144423.10800@godzilla.quotron.com>
- Organization: Quotron Systems, Inc.
- References: <1992Aug26.024727.2556@ccorp.uucp>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 14:44:23 GMT
- Lines: 47
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- In article <1992Aug26.024727.2556@ccorp.uucp> dsamperi@ccorp.uucp (Dominick Samperi - bond) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug19.122333.19628@newshost.unh.edu> pss1@kepler.unh.edu (Paul S Secinaro) writes:
- >>In article <Bt5rD7.1rw@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
- >>>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.
- >>>
- >
- >My goal is to configure a PC at home with a 16-17" monitor so that some PC
- >UNIX running X windows that will support text and graphics that is at least as
- >clear as it is on a 16" Sony monitor that comes standard with a Sparc2 (same
- >aspect ratio, etc.). The Sparc configuration does not require the use of
- >a huge monitor yet the work space is adequate for work under X windows.
- >
- >Possible on a PC?
- >
- >
- >--
- >Dominick Samperi -- Citicorp
- >dsamperi@Citicorp.COM
- >uunet!ccorp!dsamperi
-
-
- I completely agree with Dominick. A few months ago, I purchased a 486/50 to
- run the new ESIX 5.4 Release 4. The system is extremely solid ( like the
- new ESIX ); however, my big mistake was only buying a 14" monitor which
- is being driven by the Diamond SpeedStar Plus. As is mentioned above, when
- I go into 1024 X 768 mode under "X", the text is so small that it is nearly
- not readable.
-
- Sanford <sandy> Zelkovitz
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