{"id":534,"date":"2006-06-01T00:59:05","date_gmt":"2006-06-01T07:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.computerworld.com:\/\/46e24a36338d63a733d2b1c2ff6c8ae0"},"modified":"2006-06-01T00:59:05","modified_gmt":"2006-06-01T07:59:05","slug":"understanding-display-sizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=534","title":{"rendered":"Understanding display sizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the bad old days of computing, when the need for graphics was minor, there were basically two choices - either you had a CGA card capable of 320x240 pixels, or an EGA that managed 640x480 with a massive 16 colors or even 256 colors. <\/p>\n<p>Macs traditionally had higher resolutions, although the highest at the time where black &amp; white, grayscale at best. If you got color, it would be designed for a 13 inch monitor, but often at thousands or millions of colors.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we are all familiar with, and most computers are capable of, a wide range of different resolutions if you have the right monitor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=3yxgVv\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=3yxgVv\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?g=165\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the bad old days of computing, when the need for graphics was minor, there were basically two choices &#8211; either you had a CGA card capable of 320&#215;240 pixels, or an EGA that managed 640&#215;480 with a massive 16 colors or even 256 colors. <\/p>\n<p>Macs traditionally had higher resolutions, although the highest at the time where black &amp; white, grayscale at best. If you got color, it would be designed for a 13 inch monitor, but often at thousands or millions of colors.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we are all familiar with, and most computers are capable of, a wide range of different resolutions if you have the right monitor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=3yxgVv\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=3yxgVv\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?g=165\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}