computer graphics in the 1950s

In article <m1Kqa6m-000IxyC at p850ug1>, ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) writes: The reason you don't see it is because you are torturing the definitions in order to come up with some crazy example. Characters are not pixels because you don't send characters to the CRT. Eventually characters are turned into a bitmap pattern of pixels and *that* is what is sent to the CRT. That's why pixels are picture elements, but characters are not. I can't believe I have to explain this basic element of digital video scanout to you Tony, I know for a fact you've delved into the circuitry of these kinds of subsystems often enough to know exactly the difference between a character and a pixel and why they are not the same. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>