Re: Debian JR. for school project.
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 09:16:20PM -0400, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 03:26:30AM +0000, John Gay wrote:
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> > I've been offered upto 20 P100 machines for £1 per Mhz. That's £100
> > each. My current X-Terminal is a 486 with 16M ram, 130M hard drive
> > 1M trident video. The display is limited in colour, but more than
> > useful.
>
> Ah well. If the monitors are old, 800x600 @ 16bpp might be better
> than 1024x768 @ 8bpp anyway. But some apps just aren't meant for
> anything less than 1024x768, so you have to live with things spilling
> off the edge of the screen if you do that (e.g. Netscape, and I
> suspect StarOffice as well).
StarOffice is actually usable in 800x600. A lot of kde apps, I've
noticed spillover (kword and whatever the main configuration utility is
called come to mind).
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Pat Mahoney <patmahoney@gmx.net>
But maybe good is more than the absence of bad.
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