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From: mikey@eukanuba.wpd.sgi.com (Mike Yang)
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Subject: Re: Not impressed with MacX
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Date: 3 Dec 90 21:00:11 GMT
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In article <9012030339.AA05092@lightning.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>, mouse@LIGHTNING.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU writes:
|> In another note, someone from SGI said that it had the luxury of always
|> being on an 8-bit PseudoColor server with a 3-button mouse.  I can just
|> see programs from such a person[%] blindly assuming an 8-bit
|> PseudoColor visual as the default.  Does this then mean that all
|> servers must provide an 8-bit PseudoColor visual?  No, it means that
|> such programs are broken!
|> 
|> [%] I don't remember who this person was, and don't mean this
|>     personally - I have no basis for judging the portability of your
|>     code, never having seen any of it.

I wasn't claiming that applications which assumed 8-bit color are
portable and aren't broken.  I was just acknowledging the portability
problem but pointing out that at SGI, when we develop software for our
platforms which *don't* have to work on other vendor's hardware, we
thankfully can assume simple things like color.

I agree that applications which are meant to run across hardware
platforms should work with some lowest common denominator.  I just
don't agree how with you on how low this should be.

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                 Mike Yang        Silicon Graphics, Inc.
               mikey@sgi.com           415/335-1786