Well, at some point peripheral vision becomes an issue; my guess is that 43" would be okay but that 72" would be too big. I never saw the point of dual monitors, except for cases where drivers weren't available for a single monitor with the same real estate.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, January 3, 2019 9:20 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Crosshair cursor On 3/01/2019 1:58 am, Seymour J Metz wrote: > Bah! I did 62x160 on a 17" plasma screen. Of course, these day I would not > consider buying 17", 23" or even the larger screen I have now; I'd go for the > biggest screen that had a reasonable price. 39" 4K TVs are cheap as chips these days. The bigger the better. The days of dual monitors are over. > > FWIW, I usually used SPLIT and VSPLIT to chop up the screen, depending on > what I was doing; I almost never ran with one big panel. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of > Robert Prins <robert.ah.pr...@gmail.com> > Sent: Wednesday, January 2, 2019 11:50 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Crosshair cursor > > On 2019-01-02 08:26, Styles, Andy , ITS zPlatform Services wrote: >> On 2018-12-29 17:46, zMan wrote: >>> Does anybody here voluntarily use a crosshair cursor in your 3270 >>> emulator? >>> >> It was the second change I made after installing Vista, setting up the cursor >> to garish bright yellow cross-hairs. ;) (The first change? A 62 x 160 >> screen-size) >> >> Classification: Public I also frequently use crosshairs (toggled by >> SHIFT-HOME, which I think is something similar to the combination on the 3270 >> keyboard I used in the 80s). I switch crosshair on/off depending on what I'm >> doing. >> >> 62 x 160 eh? Still using a small screen then? :-) > Only 23" full HD, and pretty bad eyesight, myopic (-6.5) and problems using > multifocal glasses. > > Robert > -- > Robert AH Prins > robert.ah.prins(a)gmail.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
