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From: root@sbcs.sunysb.edu (root)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Memory and the A2024 Hedley monitor.
Summary: NeWS background workbench was 640x200
Message-ID: <1504@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Date: 13 Aug 88 12:40:13 GMT
References: <8808060100.AA11069@jade.berkeley.edu> <3550@cadnetix.COM> <3599@cadnetix.COM>
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
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In article <3599@cadnetix.COM>, childs@cadnetix.COM (David Childs) writes:
> In article <2746@amiga.UUCP> jimm@cloyd.UUCP (Jim Mackraz) writes:

	[ some discussion deleted]

> Ameristar did push the NeWS screen to the rear to show a workbench.  It looked
> so much worse, I thought it had to be 320x200.  But a 320 workbench?  Nah, my
> eyes must have got spoiled.

	No, actually the show disks were built with the workbench screen
	set to 640x200.  It wasn't anything intentional on our part - the
	screen could have just as easily been 1008x800 (if we had a nice 
	looking Amiga font for that resolution).

> 
>    David Childs               Internet: childs@cadnetix.COM
>    Cadnetix Corp              UUCP: cadnetix!childs
>    5775 Flatiron Pkwy               {uunet,boulder,nbires}!cadnetix!childs
>    Boulder, CO 80301

					Rick Spanbauer
					SUNY/Stony Brook
					(& Ameristar)