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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Subject: Re: (Video) Hardware Idiots ?
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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1991 04:33:21 GMT

In article <1991Jun9.184849.4299@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes:
>es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:

>>	First off, my workbench is 732x480, small point. Second,
>>I don't WANT a 256 color display! In fact, I don't even want 16
>>color, at least not on my workbench. Those colors are useful for
>>DISPLAYING an image, but I don't feel comfortable WORKING with an
>>image in that many bitplanes. Way too slow.
>
>  Would you WANT a 256 colour display if it were fast enough?  
>Saying you don't want something because it's too slow at the moment
>isn't allowing for the future when such a system may be fast enough.
>(for example, the 8/24 GC card on the Mac is certainly more than
>fast enough for 256 (and even 16 million) colour displays).
>
>
	Well, I think that that is a reasonable assumption. 8-)
More is always better. Certainly that will always be true: people
will always want more than is standard and expect what is
standard. I think that with 16 colors you have more than enough
for most standard productivity software: more colors will only
distract people.
	However there are uses for everything and if it weren't
slower I'd want it. However, I don't consider the additional cost
of that board reasonable. Also, after seeing the speed of windows
I'd be afraid of anything more than 16 colors. The speed of VGA
boards ain't so great either.
	-- Ethan

Now the world has gone to bed,		Now I lay me down to sleep,
Darkness won't engulf my head,		Try to count electric sheep,
I can see by infrared,			Sweet dream wishes you can keep,
How I hate the night.			How I hate the night.   -- Marvin
