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Re: I want a 40 row display!
- Subject: Re: I want a 40 row display!
- From: "Seth D. Kadesh" <thes+@CMU.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1993 09:05:22 -0400
- In-reply-to: <behrenss.735378429@hphalle9>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Junior, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
- References: <IfpAJzK00VR_M4S8AC@andrew.cmu.edu> <behrenss.735378429@hphalle9>
behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens) writes:
> "Seth D. Kadesh" <thes+@CMU.EDU> writes:
>
> >A perfectly unreasonable request, but I am right now connected to
> >campus with my pc-clone, using a 40 row display. I like the extra
> >space (although screen updates are slow at 2400 baud). I would love
> >to see something like this on the GS.
>
> Easy. Take some man-years and a TM34020, develop a graphics card for
> the GS and write half of the Toolbox new. Then discover that noone buys
> your card because too many years have passed :)
>
> Soenke
> --
Yeah, I was calculating this morning, and if I could make a legible
screen display with a character matrix 5 pixels in height, with 1
pixel seperating them, I could get a 32 row display....
(In other words, 40 rows is quite unreasonable with standard GS
hardware. Sigh.)
Seth ---> thes+@cmu.edu
and his amazing signature! "It is enough to watch."