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From: glennp%umcp-cs@sri-unix.UUCP
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Subject: Re:  workstation trends
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Date: Wed, 4-Jul-84 14:39:53 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  4 14:39:53 1984
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From:      Glenn Pearson <glennp@umcp-cs>

There's a certain chicken-&-egg problem to the use of color for workstations:
There's not enough software that uses the color effectively, and there's
not a common-enough availability of color equipment (except moderate
resolution home computers) to encourage software development.  Mostly,
this has to do with price.  For a particular resolution and precision of
image, color will probably always cost more than B&W; but its reasonable
to expect the cost differential for hi-resolution monitors to become
less significant in the future.
	So for the present, if you're talking about a BUNCH of workstations,
why not put some eggs (to further mutilate this metaphore) in both baskets...
say, purchase 75% B&W and 25% color?  Many of the vendors (Sun, Apollo...)
offer both types, so in theory you could avoid cross-vendor incompatabilities
if that consideration was important.
	Also, in my opinion a workstation without a pointing device
{mouse, trackball, joystick, or touchscreen} is like a car with a starting
crank; vis, OLD TECHNOLOGY.  I'm particularly fond of the mouse or trackball
choices.
	Oops, I forgot bitpads.  They're good too.
					Glenn