From: "Frank Haber" 

Now that GUIs have won the war, and all of this is of academic interest
only, I'm still compelled to remind everyone that

***the most legible and least tiring onscreen text I've ever used is, wait for
it, 94x36 fixed-pitch sans UltraVision DOS.  Soft grey on white. 
Beautiful, and f*ck those fontaholics.**

I admit I'm a linear kinda guy, and seldom indulge in sprays of windows for
their own sake. But I can love dual monitors. (Remember a text tube for
Autocad's menus?  Remember a secondary CGA tube for Lotus' charts, before
that?)  I also don't have to deal with mutiwindow IDEs, where screen real
estate counts.

You can be sure, every time I need to write more than 3-4 pages, I fire up
the DOS beast and WordStar.  Progress?  What's that?


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Be sure to tune in for my next tirade: "Why, just because Hollywood
went widescreen, do we have to buy 16:9 monitors for use in a world that's
mostly a very vertical set of Web screens, and single-column text
documents?  There ain't nothing else out there this year.

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