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RE: [Plug] XFree locks up local console
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> Now as the common belief goes (or at least what I was
> taught), screensavers
> were invented in order to save your screen from screen burn.
Exactly right.
> And yet, this
> is completely illogical, as while you're working you have the
> same images on the screen for possibly hours at a time and that causes no
> visible damage even over a relatively long period of time.
Nowadays, no. Well, on non-monochrome screens anyway.
(You can still see screen burn-in on some monochrome ATM machines - the
older ones, anyway)
>Now my question is this:
> Originally were screens built so that they got burned far
> more easily (& why did they/why don't newer ones),
Better materials/manufacturing processes/better refresh rates. VGA and above
is not really subject to screen burn-in. Older CGA/MGA *are* subject to it.
So, no, no technical reasons, nowadays.
>and if not, then was the sole purpose of the
> screensaver eye candy to get people to buy Windows?
No. It was to make the screens "cooler" looking for the non-techie types.
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