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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re:  workstation trends
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Date: Sat, 7-Jul-84 20:18:40 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul  7 20:18:40 1984
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Glenn Pearson observes, in part:

   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....

Some of the potential customers recognize the problem.  The original "spec"
for the CMU Spice project explicitly said that color and sound capability
must exist from the beginning so that the software would *use* them.  If
you want to encourage use of color, you should *not* buy 75% monochrome
and 25% color, because there will be strong pressure to make the software
run on the lowest-common-denominator configuration, i.e. no color.

Personally, I agree with the original suggestion that color is not worth
the (current) price unless you have a specific need for it.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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