gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu (12/26/88)
/* Written 12:33 am Dec 24, 1988 by kenchin@cory.Berkeley.EDU in p.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.mac */ >The IBM terminals with gas plasma screens were large enough to display >four login sessions at one time. But the BIG disadvantage, is their >lack of a brightness control. It was impossible to use one near >a window without the sun washing out the screen. The red color of the >display was also somewhat irritating. /* End of text from p.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.mac */ I find nothing irritating about the color of plasma displays. Perhaps you are letting some cultural bias show through. I have never had problems with them in over 2000 hours of gas-plasma panel use on the PLATO system. One nice advantage of a plasma panel is that you can project pictures onto it, but this advantage is probably being superceded by LCD displays. I don't know why a limited brightness control is impractical in in principle. Generally, plasma displays are pretty bright under strong flourescent lights. I don't know of any terminals that do well in direct sunlight. Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois 1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801 ARPA: gillies@cs.uiuc.edu UUCP: {uunet,harvard}!uiucdcs!gillies