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Date: 1992-07-01
From: AOL Chatroom
Subject: Fifth Online Summit

P King Duk: This needs to be *short* anyway; 4:45 AM wake-up call.
JohnCartan: Understood. I DO have an Alex question...
P King Duk: What's that?
JohnCartan: Do you see any limit to the size of the map you can display? How many pixels wide? How many tall?
P King Duk: Umm... Current limit? Architectural limit?
JohnCartan: How big can our maps get? What level of detail can we afford on coastlines?
P King Duk: Let's assume BIG. I'll figure out the real limit and get back to you. I'm willing to do lots of extra work if nexessary to get big maps.
JohnCartan: OK. I guess what I want to know is what the pixel size is of every map coordinate.
P King Duk: Currently, it's 10x10. This is rather larger that SC 2.0.
JohnCartan: Hmmm. That's good to know. Does that stike you as a good size?
P King Duk: So far, yes. I think I tried a few other sizes way-back-when.
JohnCartan: OK. I'l luse that as a working model.
P King Duk: OK, but I won't hard-code anything like that.
JohnCartan: Well... Anything else?
P King Duk: Nope. I need to toddle off to bed. And next week I may need to reset the meeting time once again.
JohnCartan: Just send me e-mail no later than Tues evening. Good night!
P King Duk: OK, Bye.


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