QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 (was something about yummy CPU-GPU combos!)

[Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)]

On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:00:54 -0300 "robert lazarski" <robertlazarski at gmail.com>
babbled:

> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:12 PM, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler
> <raster at openmoko.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:57:36 +0300 "Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen at gmail.com>
> > babbled:
> >
> >> 2008/6/10 The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler <raster at openmoko.org>:
> >> > nb - your chars just become tall (3x7). eg:
> >> >
> >>
> >> I understand. I would still like to see a screenshot of fstab or
> >> xorg.conf open in vim with such a font on qvga screen. I don't mind
> >> getting used to some displeasures, however others I avoid if possible.
> >
> > http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~fine/images/fonts/atari-small-samp.gif
> >
> 
> That's painful for this reader. I couldn't write or read code - or
> anything really - in that font for more than a few seconds. IMHO, It'd
> be kind of ironic that a "totally hackable" phone wouldn't have the
> ability to read or write text. FYI, I did lasik corrective surgery so
> my eyesight is relatively good .

hold it so that it covers the same visual field the 2.8" on the freerunner
would. it's easier to read. :) i do agree - it's not great for code - but for
normal shell usage it's adequate for editing said files which don't use
punctuation and other symbol chars much. :)

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Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <raster at openmoko.org>