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Re: (screen-) size... (was 770 price cut)
On Mon, 9 Feb 98 16:44:44 EST, Robert Dewar 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.
>
Well, that's quite a big step up. I'm still viewing 640*480 on 12" equivalant
screens, INCLUDING the ThinkPad. :(
I didn't know they had 1280*960 out for general use yet!
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