Corvus Concept (was Re: Y2K stuff)

Digging into my "received" folder of e-mail, I found that you wrote: Mostly the high-resolution graphics and possibly a tall aspect ratio of the monitor. Radius Pivot monitors are very rectangular (they're either very tall or very wide) -- does the Concept screen look the same way? I'm very curious about graphics workstations for a couple of reasons -- 1) I'm always trying to satisfy a fantasy that there is some ancient computer that's "better" (faster, more powerful) compared to modern hardware. I doubt that's true if you consider a modern top-of-the-line PC or Mac system, but if you consider PCs of a few years ago, or the original PC or the original Mac, it may be true. I just saw a picutre of a Concept, and it seemed to be running a decent- looking GUI. Is that realistic? 2) I do believe that PCs make terrible use of the hardware and firmware they have; the Mac may make better use but it's much harder to tweak the hardware directly. So it's always pleasant to hear about a machine that has nice, programmer-accessible hardware, sane routines for using it, and software that makes imaginative use of the hardware (say, by having a "terminal mode" but with extra redefinable characters, instead of just ASCII). Whether that's true of the Concept only you can tell me. :) [snip description of VERT/HORIZ switch] Somehow I was hoping that the "monitor-turning" hardware was more foolproof. Oh well. OTOH I've seen mis-emulated software on my computer which gave a sideways picture. In that case it might be GOOD to have the monitor and the switch (on the Concept) "out of synch". -- Derek