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- From: bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar)
- Subject: Re: Why didn't my apple need a screen saver?
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- References: <31DEC92.06222989@vax.clarku.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 07:22:19 GMT
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- mmelez@vax.clarku.edu writes:
-
- >Date sent: 31-DEC-1992 01:07:47
-
- >I've been wondering about something for a long time. Almost every Mac I've
- >worked with has had a screen saver installed, ostensibly to prevent screen
- >burn-in. I've had an Apple //e since 1983, with a "monitor ///" monochrome
- >monitor attached, and my screen has never been burnt in, even when I left it on
- >for up to 12 hours at a time (usually I would turn it off, but every once
- >in a while I'd forget). Is it the black-on-white nature of Mac monitors that
- >requires a screen saver, or was I just lucky with my //e?
-
- Well, see, you're one of the special few who have come to realize that
- 'screen saver' is a marketing term. The more appropriate term is
- 'user bilcher' (No offense, Jim :-). These days, pretty much all screen
- savers do is provide something for the computer to do and for the user
- to look at when the computer isn't being used for anything else.
-
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