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Re: lynx-dev screen widths
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David Woolley |
Subject: |
Re: lynx-dev screen widths |
Date: |
Sat, 17 Apr 1999 09:40:25 +0100 (BST) |
> the reason for making CRT terminals 80-col seems most likely to have been
> that on a 12" screen it gives characters roughly paper-printing size;
Not printing, only typewriting, but another good reason is that that is
what you get when you use the smallest practical dot matrix pattern with
square pixels on a US TV monitor non-interlaced.
> some very early personal computers had 40-col displays,
> probably due to their very small memories or processors.
The main reason is that it represents about the maximum you can get
accurately through the aerial socket of a domestic television, i.e
240 pixels in about 60 microseconds, or 4 mega pixels per second.
- Re: lynx-dev screen widths, (continued)
- Re: lynx-dev screen widths, Bela Lubkin, 1999/04/16
- Re: lynx-dev screen widths, dickey, 1999/04/17
- Re: lynx-dev screen widths, Henry Nelson, 1999/04/19
- Re: lynx-dev screen widths, Bela Lubkin, 1999/04/20
- lynx-dev screen widths, Philip Webb, 1999/04/21
- Re: screen widths [lynx-dev], Michael Warner, 1999/04/21
- Re: lynx-dev screen widths, David Woolley, 1999/04/23