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Worth remembering that these displays were small. The Radius or PERQ display was the same format as a piece of paper. It was "full page" only for 8.5x11, in the
by jeffbee 3y ago
Worth remembering that these displays were small. The Radius or PERQ display was the same format as a piece of paper. It was "full page" only for 8.5x11, in the same way that 35mm camera sensors are "full frame". If you have a 21" or larger WUXGA display you already have 2 of these pages side by side and there aren't a lot of great reasons to run a display like that in portrait mode. Unless you are just dying to have realistic 11x17" pages, large portrait monitors are just an ergonomic problem.
- mixmastamyk 3y agoPortrait is great with a medium size and 16:10 or wider. 16:9 (or rather 9:16) is too skinny for two side by side windows and kinda too tall/wide for one.
- Syzygies 3y agoIt was still the best monitor I'd used up to that point. My current Eizo EV3285 is my all-time favorite, though $300 alternatives aren't far off. That last 5% is worth it to me.
- jeffbee 3y agoI love Eizo because they market a square display, for those who simply can't decide between portrait and landscape.
- xp84 3y agoIdk what WUXGA is (I find that initialism system hard to memorize past SVGA, and am amused that they still keep making up new ones), but I used to put a 1080p on its side all the time 5-10 years ago and frequently used it for a full screen terminal window. Most of the action in a terminal is down near the bottom so it wasn’t a big ergo issue, but occasionally it’s nice to be able to see dozens of lines of scrollback, such as viewing a man page, text editor editing a medium sized config file, etc.