17 Oct
2008
17 Oct
'08
2:08 a.m.
der Mouse wrote:
Hardly. That bitmapped displays took off indicates
they are better for
a substantial fraction of the applications.
Indicates that they're better as of
the time that they took off, and
that they were worse before that time.
Vector displays had the advantage for many years because they didn't
require as much expensive memory and processing power, and produced
sharper lines. It wasn't until the late 1970s that the memory cost
dropped enough that it essentially ceased to be an issue, and it wasn't
until the mid 1990s that bitmap displays with high enough resolution to
rival the sharp lines of vector displays became commonplace.