Re: Mega Pixel Myth

Today, when Scott W uttered these immortal words, such was the
importance of this profound pronouncement, that is is being
saved for future reference

In the early 80s I was at Tektronix when we saw a demo of a
color display system that looked fantastically sharp, the
resolution was 640x480. Today this seems funny and you might
think that you would not have thought it looked all that
sharp, but keep in mind this was several years before VGA
cards were out, and they could only to 320x200 in 256 colors.
The point again is that what seems sharp today will not seem
to in a few years from now.

Tektronix in those days were known mainly for their ultra-high
"resolution" storage tubes, something in the 4000 x 3000 equivalent
range. As you say, pixel graphics displays were quite primative and
for CAD work, Tek's primary audience, the other main technology was
a vector graphics tube which had reasonable "resolution" but
suffered from severe flicker due to the small buffer sizes of the
day.

--
HP, aka Jerry
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