On 21 Oct 2005 15:58:18 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Salt) wrote:
You must either have very good eyesight or a very large monitor.
Anything
over 43 lines, and I'm squinting at the screen. I wouldn't dream of
setting
my monitor to 62 rows, never mind anything larger than that. Unless,
perhaps, I hook my PC up to a large screen projection TV... ;-)
Or be farsighted.
I recall one shop where the LAN-nazis insisted that everyone run
their 15" monitors at 640x480 (circa mid-1990s) -- 800x600 and
1024x768 were expressly verboten because "users shouldn't be messing
with the system configuration". They went so far as to delete
everyones default video drivers and replace them with crippled ones.
I suspect they learned from the mainframe rocket scientists that
insisted on everything being 24x80.
I had a 6 foot keyboard cable extender and I sat on the far side of
my cube just to keep the screen in decent focus...
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