From: hellsop_at_ninehells.com
Date: Mon Apr 04 2005 - 09:07:35 PDT
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:48:43AM -0400, Victor Rehorst wrote:
> Goodwin, Greg P. wrote:
> > How is it a downgrade? I see some improvements over the
> > N2000... color, 64 meg internal, other things can be listed, but
> > were the downgrades?
>
> Screen resolution. Still haven't seen any device near the 2x00's size
> and screen resolution. I'll admit that 480x320 is kind of a strange
> size, but NOS 2.1 on anything less would be really, really cramped
> IMHO.
480x320 is half of VGA, double of CGA, so some other people thought
there were convenient divisions around there for some reason, probably
relating to handy amounts of memory usable for screen images.
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