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* On 2005.05.18, in <428B786A.9090905@xxxxxxxx.xx>, * "Paul Holden" <pholden@xxxxxxxx.xx> wrote: > > No kidding. I have the resolution on my Windows machine set to 1152 X > 864 (not sure where that number came from). If I reboot, which I try to It's the largest approx. 4:3 screen ratio whose product fits in a round numnber of megabytes of video RAM at whatever bit depth, and both 1152 and 864 are multiples of 32, which is the number of bits in a word of video RAM at the time the resolution was adopted. Sun displays ran at this resolution for many years, because they didn't need no steenking CGA/EGA/VGA/XVGA/XGA whatever kind of bollocks and just wanted to maximize the storage capacity of the video device. I'm just glad people are finally starting to get off their ridiculous television-based video standards. -- -D. dgc@xxxxxxxx.xxx NSIT University of ChicagoThere's stuff above here
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