Re: OpenOffice.ooOOOOOOoooOOOoooook EEEeek! eeek! oooOOOOOK!

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From: David Champion
Subject: Re: OpenOffice.ooOOOOOOoooOOOoooook EEEeek! eeek! oooOOOOOK!
Date: 19:46 on 18 May 2005
* 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.

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