[TUHS] Early GUI on Linux

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Tue Feb 28 13:35:09 AEST 2023


On Sun, 26 Feb 2023, John Cowan wrote:

> However, most configuration errors can't reduce your hardware to a 
> useless pile of junk, whereas older CRT monitors could definitely be 
> destroyed if the configuration was too far off nominal.

Not to mention MS-DOS malware that used to set the horizontal deflection 
rate really high and creating massive inductive spikes, or the vertical 
deflection to zero and burning out the phosphor...

-- Dave


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