Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site druxo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!drutx!druxo!knf From: knf@druxo.UUCP (FricklasK) Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga with a small monitor? Message-ID: <1032@druxo.UUCP> Date: Tue, 29-Oct-85 11:58:15 EST Article-I.D.: druxo.1032 Posted: Tue Oct 29 11:58:15 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 30-Oct-85 06:49:06 EST References: <213@telesoft.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver Lines: 17 >I was sitting at a Mac today, and I noticed how much nicer the Mac >screen looked than the Amiga screen (I've only seen the Amiga with the >1080 monitor). In particular, the Amiga characters and icons look >fairly course (especially visible horizontal gaps between lines) and >the Mac characters and icons look nice and dense - much more "paper-like". >...The Mac has a much smaller screen than the Amiga, so a similar number of pixels total translates to a larger number of dots per inch. The Mac has square pixels, which I think also gives much more dense "paper-like" graphics, due to the lack of space between the pixel sides. '`'` Ken '`'`'