20 Mar
2010
20 Mar
'10
8:38 p.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
On Mar 20, 2010, at 6:48 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
I have two white-phosphor VGA monitors, one 9" and one 15". I will
never let them out of my sight for exactly this reason. :)
Honestly, while I can see the argument about color CRTs, I've never had
a problem with the crispness of my LCD displays (at least when driven
using a digital signal; analog VGA is another story). They're easily as
crisp as the monochrome high-res CRT displays I have (PERQ, Sun, and
Symbolics).
Plus the refresh rate is better on my eyes, and they don't take up half
my desk ;).
- Josh
(What I
want to solve #2 would be a super-high DPI screen... I have a
1920x1200 display, but it's still only 96 dpi. Something 200dpi or
higher would be very nice (for things other than PDFs, too...)
There was something to be said for the crispness of a good high-res
B&W monitor
where the resolution was limited more by the video bandwidth, rather
than the
physical tri-color-grid of colour monitors.
When everything started going colour in the early 90's it occurred to
me to
hold onto a couple of larger B&W monitors as they went out of style, for
working on text and schematics and such, but I never did get any.
-Dave