: Wide Screen Setup

[Mark Stewart]

Darren, 

If every user in your company was 19"+ screens then
why not use wide screens?  I uses to work at a company
that had a couple of wide screens that looked not too
bad, still a bit squinty, on 17" screens.  I had to go
out to the field one time to a near by branch and over
her shoulder I saw some woman working on the 132
screen.  She was using an old 14" monochome dumb
terminal hooked into the network.  She didn't look
like she was having fun with the stack of 20-30 pink
forums she had to enter into the screen.  

Mark

--- Darren Reely <darren.reely@latticesemi.com> wrote:
> Mark Stewart wrote:
> 
> > Imagine coding in 132 mode for 8 hours a day.
> >
> I been doing this 5 days a week for years. It is not
> a problem, given a 
> good monitor. I'm running Relection on a 19" CRT and
> usually work with 4 
> overlapping screens. In other words, each screen is
> only 2/3 width of 
> the display.
> 
> Still given my own preference, I'd have to say, only
> use greater than 80 
> columns for screens when it makes sense. Out of 463
> screens in our 
> system, 1 is 132 columns.  So far I've been able to
> keep others to 80 
> columns with some creative formatting and label
> tricks.  I also take 
> advantage of clusters by making them shorter when I
> require another line.
> 
> Given my creativety, I suspect I may be forced into
> expanding a few 
> screens this year. They are becoming very cluttered,
> and the information 
> is tightly bound.
> 
> I've noticed most/many of my users have their
> terminal emulator set to 
> use the entire screen. So even the 132 screen is
> very readable. The 
> exception is the few VT terminals. But they tend to
> be sharp.
> 
> Darren
> 
> 
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