[rescue] fwd: Linux Foundation Prepares For Microsoft's Legal Action

[Michael Parson]

On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 08:46:13AM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
>> Date: 2007/05/19 Sat PM 09:32:04 CDT
>> To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>> Subject: Re: [rescue] fwd: Linux Foundation Prepares For Microsoft's Legal Action
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>> If the Atari 8-bit systems had had real 80 column support, I'd
>> probably never have gotten rid of mine.
>
> IIRC, a very big part of the Atari appeal was that you could use an
> off-the-shelf TV as an output device, and 80 coulmns isn't possible on
> a standard TV set.

Possible and comfortable are two seperate issues.  I had an 80 column
term for my C-64 (Novaterm), it used like a 3 or 4 pixel wide font with
no spaces between the characters.  It was usable if you had a monitor,
on a TV, it was a bit on the fuzzy side.  Scarily, I used it mostly on
my SX-64's 4" internal screen.

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Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org