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From: jhall@ihuxu.UUCP (John R. Hall-"the samurai MTS")
Newsgroups: net.works
Subject: Re: workstation trends and color - image processing & display control
Message-ID: <359@ihuxu.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Jul-84 00:41:28 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 25 00:41:28 1984
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Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL
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Color isn't always desirable for image processing.  The last place I worked at,
the customer wasn't willing to pay the price for storage of grey (4-bit) images;
color was out of the question.  In their opinion, the enhanced image
was not worth the additional storage cost.  Of course, we're not talking about
a workstation here; it probably would have cost a million dollars to add color.
There are also some tricks that can be played, but I can't talk about them.

The current project I'm on uses a display control terminal which is just a
VT100 B/W terminal.  Color is an option, but (a typical ATT Bell Labs
problem?) I have no contact with the customer, so I don't know if they
would be willing to pay the several thousand dollars it would cost.  I like
color and wish the customer wanted it so we would have to buy some color
terminals for me to play with in the lab.

I don't know about circuit design, except I took a course at Univ. of Illinois
where the prof said it wasn't clear that color workstations sped up the
development of a computer design.  I'm open-minded; seems to me like it
might be useful.
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--John R. Hall, ...ihnp4!ihuxu!jhall