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Re: (screen-) size... (was 770 price cut)
- To: "Robert Dewar" <dewar@gnat.com>
- Subject: Re: (screen-) size... (was 770 price cut)
- From: "Steve Hultquist" <ssh@HSAnet.net>
- Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 14:53:41 -0700
- Cc: thinkpad@cs.utk.edu
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Heh, heh, heh... Except that a 1280 screen is 1280x1024.... :-|
--On Monday, February 09, 1998, 4:44 PM +0000 "Robert Dewar"
<dewar@gnat.com> wrote:
> <<I have several older DOS apps which are indispensible to me. I could
replace
> some of them with their windows upgrades for a combined total of several
> thousand $$. This would give me no added functionality, possibly slow
> performance and create some backwards compatibility problems. I don't
consider
> the software broken - but, it necessarily uses bitmapped fonts, and was
> written at a time when Hercules Mono was the highest resolution out there.
>>>
>
> Note that once we get to 1280 x 960 screens, things look at lot better,
> because you can pixel double old 640 x 480 images.
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