woody@tybalt.caltech.edu (William Edward Woody) (03/06/87)
seismo!sun!stewart (Dave Stewart): >It's not nice to throw unsupported slander around the network. > >The Sun 3 machines also refresh at 66 Hz. If the color Mac doesn't >flicker, it isn't due to the difference in scan rate, so much >as monitor phosphor characteristics. Brighter phospors tend to >have less persistence (think about it, the energy envelope must be >about the same). I'm sorry about my remark about the Sun workstation. It is a very nice system, and to say that the Mac 2 compares well at all to the Sun is very high praise for the new Macintosh, indeed! [If I had it my way, I wouldn't fiddle around with a Mac, but have a Sun 3 workstation with Unix, but I'm just a starving student. ;-) ] I do stand corrected about the Sun refresh rate. The flicker that I notice on the Suns (which do give me a headache after an hour) is caused by the beat frequency between the 60 hz lights and the 66 hz screen. I haven't noticed it on the Mac 2, but then the computer was in a different environment, and it is not fair to either Apple or Sun to compare the systems unless they are in the same environment. - William Woody Mac! > ][n && /|\ woody@tybalt.caltech.edu woody@juliet.caltech.edu