[austechwriter] Re: austechwriter Digest V1 #105: RESOLUTION
- From: Bill Parker <renew@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 18:26:08 +0800
>austechwriter Digest Sun, 13 Jul 2003 Volume: 01 Issue: 105
>
>In This Issue:
> Hello everyone.
> Re: Sec Unclassified: Screen-shots fuzzy
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>Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 13:06:05 +1000
>From: Michael Edward Granat <megranat@xxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: Sec Unclassified: Screen-shots fuzzy
>
>Well Steve (Hudson),
>
>It is not as if somebody throws in a handful of extra phosphor dots to make
>more pixels when you turn up the (apparent) resolution on a PC. The IBM /
>MS-DOS idea of high resolution is "Make it smaller", not make it clearer
>and sharper.
>
>Back to the old / second generation Amiga Advanced Graphics Adapter (AGA)
>16.7 million colours system, there was a personal computer that had a
>resolution programmable to the limits of the output device, rather than the
>above trick of the eye.
>
>No matter what "resolution" you put into your MS PC, it still shows images
>at 28.34 dots a centimetre (72dpi) although you do get to see more of the
>image on the screen at a time, where that image is larger than 640x480 pixels.
>
>Regards,
>
>Michael Granat
>Write Ideas
>
>At 20:14 11/7/2003 +1000, you wrote:
>>However, 99% of the time this problem is purely because the user has no real
>>concept of what resolution is really all about. For the answer to this and
>>many other graphic design questions, I of course point people straight to my
> >free computer art primer over at tech whirlers (www.raycomm.com)
Michael, With your intimate knowledge of the MS-DOS ideas on
resolution, maybe you'd care to illuminate the assembled crowd as to
why Macintosh systems are used in preference by those who need high
Res ( and even those who don't). I believe it was yourself that
provided an erudite explanation of the technical reasons. If it
wasn't, apologies to the REAL author. Anyway, I am not likely to
stop using a (now dated) MAC Book G3/400 anytime soon.
Bill
--
A computer without a Microsoft operating system is like a dog without
bricks tied to its head.
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