Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!xanth!mcnc!decvax!crltrx!max.crl.dec.com!jg From: jg@max.crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: This is pink?? Message-ID: <1173@crltrx.crl.dec.com> Date: 7 Nov 89 15:42:59 GMT References: <272@servio.UUCP> Sender: news@crltrx.crl.dec.com Reply-To: jg@max.crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys) Organization: DEC Cambridge Research Lab Lines: 25 In article , tom@ICASE.EDU (Tom Crockett) writes: > > *Excerpts from xpert: 30-Oct-89 This is pink?? Bruce Schuchardt@bloom-b (946)* > > > It seems to me that the vendors (e.g., Digital) who ship canned X systems > > should be tuning the default, named colors to look as good as possible on > > their machines. > > I'll second that! And if they wanted to be _really_ nice they could submit the > tuned rgb databases to MIT so they could be distributed with the MIT software. You are all right. We just updated the monitors recently and they have quite different characteristics than the previous (not that the database was all that good for them, either). I tried pink on the VR299 I recently hooked up to my PMAX and it is pretty hideous. We are working on fixing this. Jim Gettys Digital Equipment Corporation Cambridge Research Laboratory