eravin@panix.uucp (Ed Ravin) (04/22/91)
As much as I like the windowed environments available to me at work, (Sunview, Xwindows), I almost never use them. Why? I don't like the idea of sitting two feet in front of a 25" monitor. After the machine is set up and if I'm not using the floppies/tape drives, I retreat back to my office and access the beast from my friendly PC via the serial port. I'm not sure which bothers me more from the large monitors -- the high-frequency sound (which I can hear and directly feel) or the electromagnetic fields (which I can't, but are getting more and more famous as each new "Currents of Death" book comes out). -- Ed Ravin | This random number tells the computer that you are cmcl2!panix!eravin | a member in good standing. It is not related to your philabs!trintex!elr | membership number. --- Sierra Club
cjc@ulysses.att.com (Chris Calabrese) (04/23/91)
In article <1991Apr21.171607.1891@panix.uucp> eravin@panix.uucp (Ed Ravin) writes: >As much as I like the windowed environments available to me at work, >(Sunview, Xwindows), I almost never use them. Why? I don't like the idea >of sitting two feet in front of a 25" monitor. After the machine is set >up and if I'm not using the floppies/tape drives, I retreat back to my office >and access the beast from my friendly PC via the serial port. I'm not sure >which bothers me more from the large monitors -- the high-frequency sound >(which I can hear and directly feel) or the electromagnetic fields (which I >can't, but are getting more and more famous as each new "Currents of Death" >book comes out). >-- >Ed Ravin | This random number tells the computer that you are >cmcl2!panix!eravin | a member in good standing. It is not related to your >philabs!trintex!elr | membership number. --- Sierra Club Odd - I've been using Suns (and other workstations and xterminals, but the poster mentioned sunview) for quite some time and have never had problems with high pitch sounds. Yes, I can hear the squeal in noisy monitors/TV's, but none I've used at work have had this problem. In any event, why should a PC's monitor be any better. Besides, PC's tend to have noisy fans and disk drives. As for electromagnetic fields, the megawat transformer on top of our roof creates much larger ones than the monitors (we've had sheilding problems with certain monitors because of the magnetic field). Check that you don't have this problem. It's much worse than what comes from your monitor. I won't get into a flame war about whether these fields are actually harmful. Name: Christopher J. Calabrese Brain loaned to: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ att!ulysses!cjc cjc@ulysses.att.com Obligatory Quote: ``pher - gr. vb. to schlep. phospher - to schlep light.philosopher - to schlep thoughts.''
neal@mnopltd.UUCP (04/24/91)
->As much as I like the windowed environments available to me at work,
->(Sunview, Xwindows), I almost never use them. Why? I don't like the idea
->of sitting two feet in front of a 25" monitor. After the machine is set
->up and if I'm not using the floppies/tape drives, I retreat back to my office
->and access the beast from my friendly PC via the serial port. I'm not sure
->which bothers me more from the large monitors -- the high-frequency sound
->(which I can hear and directly feel) or the electromagnetic fields (which I
->can't, but are getting more and more famous as each new "Currents of Death"
->book comes out).
->--
->Ed Ravin | This random number tells the computer that you are
->cmcl2!panix!eravin | a member in good standing. It is not related to your
->philabs!trintex!elr | membership number. --- Sierra Club
->
And perhaps you spent too much of your childhood with your mother yelling,
"Son, yer gonna go blind if you don't get back from that darn TV" as I did.
And perhaps momma knew best.......
Yup, give me a nice sharp EGA screen in text mode and multi-screen any day...
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