Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!alberta!filip
From: filip@alberta.UUCP (Don Filipchuk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: MachII and screen blankers in general
Keywords: which is better for my monitor?
Message-ID: <298@cadomin.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jul 88 16:22:47 GMT
Reply-To: filip@cadomin.UUCP (Don Filipchuk)
Organization: U. of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Hello,
   I leave my A500 on for weeks at a time (I frequently 
   run a ray tracer) (and it hasn't "burst into flames" yet! :-) )
   and had a question. 

   I have MachII and was wondering exactly what the screen blanker
   does.  Does it shut off the signal from the Amiga to the monitor or
   what?  The reason I ask is this :    I shut my monitor off when I leave
   for the day, but may check several times just before walking out the
   door ( to see if it GURU's ... if it will crash, it does so on
   the first 4-7 scanlines...), which involves turning the
   monitor on and off a few times in relatively rapid sucession.
   (ie over the space of 15 minutes ... while I'm brushing my teeth, etc.)
 
   Would it be better to leave the monitor ON and let the screen blanker do
   it's thing all day (keeping me from turning the monitor on and off a
   few times each morning...)  or does the screen blanker not really
   save the TV.  
       That is, is a screen blanker an acceptable substitute for having
   the monitor turned off for 8 hours?
 
   ( yes I know I probably sound like a doof, turning my monitor on
     and off in the morning, but I can't help it... picture the scene,
     "oops forgot my office key, take shoes off, run upstairs, hmmmm,
      I wonder if it GURUed and I'll have 8 hours of downtime
      instead of 8 hours of number crunching whil I am gone?"  So 
      I walk into my computer room and turn the monitor back on 
      to check.... sounds improbable?  happens all the time...)

                              Thanks,
                               Don

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