[2210] in Release_7.7_team
Re: GX110 looks good.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Ramm)
Thu Apr 13 02:54:17 2000
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Cc: owls@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU
From: Karl Ramm <kcr@1ts.org>
Date: 13 Apr 2000 02:54:11 -0400
In-Reply-To: Bill Cattey's message of "Wed, 12 Apr 2000 17:58:51 -0400 (EDT)"
Message-Id: <uusya6io5ik.fsf@ORTHANC.MIT.EDU>
Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU> writes:
> What display resolution should we set by default?
>
> The new boxes support 1600x1200x32 maximum.
> The old boxes support 1200x1024x32 maximum.
>
> Higher resolution has the advantage of more desktop space, but
> has the disadvantage that the current crop of default fonts are QUITE
> small to read. Greg is investigating bigger default fonts.
Uh, the old systems could do 1600x1200x32, it was just nearly unreadable on
those monitors. What's particularly relevant is the refresh rate, what the
actual dot pitch of the monitor is, and, of course, what it ends up looking
like. In general, 1600x1200 is only rarely usable on 19" monitor.
[A notable excepting are the rebadged hitach 19" monitors that came with
the first round of Ultra 10s, which do 1600x1200 quite nicely]
kcr
