malone@cod.NOSC.MIL (John P. Malone) (04/28/89)
I have questions for the Mac community regarding usage of upright, 'portrait' orientated, display monitors - the so-called Full Page displays. Briefly, I'd like to know if you can turn these hummers on their side and use them in a 'landscape' mode. I plan to upgrade to an SE/30 and then to big display monitor over the next 12 months. I feel a gray scale full-page display will suit my needs, but for other than word processing I'd sure like to use it with the long axis in the horizontal position. This may be a personal quirk, but my mental 'desk top' is wide & shallow. Not skinny & deep. Plus my mouse moves left & right better than up & down - maybe thats my wrist, not the mouse. Questions- 1. Is their any software that allows rotation of the display by 90 Deg. that is independent of any hardware considerations? 2. Is there a software/hardware combination that will allow for the 90 Deg. shift? Proprietary or product dependency is assumed. 3. Can this scheme even be accomplished using conventional monitor video display/raster display electronics characteristics? Much thanks, r/ Pat e-mail to malone@cod.Nosc.MIL
jnh@ece-csc.UUCP (Joseph Nathan Hall) (04/28/89)
In article <1514@cod.NOSC.MIL> malone@cod.NOSC.MIL (John P. Malone) writes: > > I have questions for the Mac community regarding usage of upright, >'portrait' orientated, display monitors - the so-called Full Page >displays. Briefly, I'd like to know if you can turn these hummers >on their side and use them in a 'landscape' mode. > You must have been reading too many articles about Xerox. I don't think any computer / monitor since the Altos has had this capability. Gee, whiz, that was great stuff. Has anyone still got the Smalltalk issue of Byte? (I probably do somewhere.) So far as I know, CMU is still using a few Altos-es as print servers for the 2 page-per-second Xerox laser printers ... both of which are over 10 years old. Kind of humbling, I guess, but there was the price tag ... -- v v sssss|| joseph hall || 201-1D Hampton Lee Court v v s s || jnh@ece-csc.ncsu.edu (Internet) || Cary, NC 27511 v sss || joseph@ece007.ncsu.edu (Try this one first) -----------|| Standard disclaimers and all that . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
bayes@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Scott Bayes) (04/29/89)
> Gee, whiz, that was great stuff. Has anyone still got the Smalltalk issue > of Byte? (I probably do somewhere.) I have. August 1982 ???? > v v sssss|| joseph hall || 201-1D Hampton Lee Court > v v s s || jnh@ece-csc.ncsu.edu (Internet) || Cary, NC 27511 > v sss || joseph@ece007.ncsu.edu (Try this one first) > -----------|| Standard disclaimers and all that . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Scott Bayes