Collection of Sun Workstation boot logos

Re:Collection of Sun Workstation boot logos by qwerty456127 on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @04:28AM (#31407504)

Were they really all this low-res?

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Re:Collection of Sun Workstation boot logos by ace2358 on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @06:26AM (#31408381)

I’d believe it. It’s my understanding that a current iPhone app icon is almost the same resolution as the first Macintosh screen. Crazy times! Have to remember that the old CRT screens took pixelated images and gave the a smooth glowing look.

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Re:Collection of Sun Workstation boot logos by qwerty456127 on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @08:28AM (#31421928)

Well, I thought the logos were sort of splash screens meant to be displayed full-screen. Perhaps the very first Mac did, but I can't believe a Sun workstation would have a 100-pixels display.

Good CRTs indeed make everything look amazing though. E.g. a 240p video can look beautiful on a 19-inch Trinitron.

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Re:Collection of Sun Workstation boot logos by mdehling on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @10:46AM (#31411484)

Yep. Standard Sun resolution for the longest time was 1152x900. The little B&W logos are 64x64 and most of the newer ones are 100x100 so like 9% of the screen width.

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Re:Collection of Sun Workstation boot logos by nikau on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @05:33AM (#31407981)

They looked better on CRT displays of the era

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