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- From: cudat@csv.warwick.ac.uk (J M Hicks)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: Ethernet on the Archimedes
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 10:25:37 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.100401.24243@csd.uwe.ac.uk> <1jlrkbINNm1n@poppy.csv.warwick.ac.uk> <1993Jan21.100340.2676@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
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- In article <1993Jan21.100340.2676@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> thughes@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Tom Hughes) writes:
- >In article <1jlrkbINNm1n@poppy.csv.warwick.ac.uk> cudat@csv.warwick.ac.uk (J M Hicks) writes:
- >>... it doesn't seem possible to display eighty character
- >>lines across the screen when using the VT220 terminal emulator (there
- >>isn't enough room for eighty characters and the scroll bar), ...
- >... Try using MODE 31 as this will give you more width, ...
-
- Tom is, of course, quite right. I had forgotten about the screen modes
- such as mode 31 that give more pixels(?) across the screen.
-
- >rumour has it that this mode is perfectly usable on an Acorn
- >Multisync.
-
- Well, I find the characters too small for my liking and the flicker
- too annoying. It's a matter of taste I suppose.
- --
- Jim Hicks, Computing Services, Warwick University, Coventry, England. CV4 7AL
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