mark (11/10/82)
On the local news last night, some prof (I think it was at Ohio State) said he had a study showing that a VDT operator only looks at the screen 1/3 of the time. He concluded from this that there is no health hazard. (I may be oversimplifying a bit - you know how fast the TV news goes through things.) I do not personally see how the above conclusion follows from the study. Anyone reading this probably looks at their CRT for a minute or two, then does something on their desk or talks on the phone, off and on. Chances are that we aren't the group that would be most hard hit by stress or by electron bombardment (or whatever it is that CRT's are supposed to do to you). I would think the poor person who sits there all day filling out forms on a CRT screen would be the one to get hit hardest. (These people were keypunch operators until the field was "modernized" and now they used a CRT to do the same thing.)
wagner (11/10/82)
UNIX can be pretty stressful when the machine is overloaded and response time is slow. Its hard to type when your characters arent being echoed! Michael Wagner, UTCS