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From:	"-= ArkanoiD =-" <ark AT mpak DOT convey DOT ru>
Date:	Wed, 18 Jun 97 02:39:16 +0300
Subject:	Re: Official word
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nuqneH,

> From: editor AT juno DOT com (Bruce Morgen)
> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 17:50:02 EDT
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[dd]

> >Some embedded x86 processors (such as AMD's Elan SC310, IIRC ) come
> >with
> >CGA-compatible LCD controllers on chip.
> >
> True enough, Roger -- now, do you
> want to subject your end user base
> to web pages displayed on an LCD?
> Like I wrote, "not a viable OEM
> option in 1997" for anything
> remotely graphical.  When I was
> with Two Technologies the only
> graphics anyone ran on our
> C&T-based DOS handheld with
> monochrome CGA on an LCD were
> bar graphs and line drawings.
>

I find 640x200 not a bad graphics option. I use it often and simple pictures
look good enough on it.

I'd like to see a CGA version of Arachne to check that all by myself.
btw even Xwindows system does not look bad on HGC.
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