Re: Wall of RAM

On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 06:43:45 +0000, Jasen Betts wrote:

> On 2006-01-05, Daniel Pitts <googlegroupie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> logjam wrote:
>>> I should be able to display a NICE terminal font on the display, 9 rows
>>> - 22 characters per row. Using a TINY font like those little store
>>> signs and I should be able to fit 14x36, which is barely big enough for
>>> lynx, wouldn't that be fun to see? :) Browse the web in green LEDs...
>> I'm picturing a '70s scifi where they had an extra large green CRT,
>> complete with burnin :-)
>
> one of the X windows screen savers emulates pong on a TV complete with
> low level snow, slow phosphor, gaps between the scan lines and loss of
> sync near the bottom, of the screen.
>
>> If you put in a PCM driver to control intensity, you can do some truely
>> interesting effects.
>> Think plasma.
>
> :)
>
> Bye.
> Jasen

I just checked my KDE screensavers, and DEWD! There sure are some kewl
ones!

Cheers!
Rich


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