[Gllug] Windows Petrol Pump and monitors

Thu Apr 17 20:38:31 UTC 2003

On Thu 17 Apr, Andrew Black (li) wrote:
> 

> 
> I have seen the platform train displays at London Bridge displaying
> something like "Insufficient virtaul memory - [OK] " sideways (because the
> screens are mounted in portait format).  Not clear how you get to press [OK]
> !
> 
> Incedently, why are computer monitors almost always landscape when real life
> text is usually portrait.  Is it becuase CRTs are based on Television
> screens?
> 
> 
   Please take care when providing answers or we may follow the trend
towards widescreen (manufacturers love new must-have trends, and sales of
ordinary 4:3 screens were not increasing at a sufficiently high rate)

-- 
Chris Bell


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