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From: hogan@rosevax.UUCP (Andy Hogan)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Re: Re: !!!!???? I GOT A MAC ATTACK ????!!!
Message-ID: <179@rosevax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 17:14:33 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul  9 17:14:33 1985
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> In article <1017@cbdkc1.UUCP> gwe@dkc1.UUCP ( George Erhart  ) writes:
> >In article <503@aicchi.UUCP> egv@aicchi.UUCP (Vann) writes:
> >I would be unwilling to give up the Mac's super readable B&W screen
> >for a few bits of color. I have used an IBM (yuck!) PC with their 
> >brand of color monitor and it stinks! The damn thing aint readable! 
> Try using a real monitor and color display, like the one on the Tandy 2000.
> 640x400 resolution w/ 8 colors; The display is crisp, clean, non-interlaced,
> and more readable than the display on the Macintosh.  Just goes to show what
> you can do if you're willing to put a couple of competent engineers on a
> problem...
> 
> Eric C. Brown

Excuse me, but as a (my opinion) competent engineer, I agree with the first
opinion.  No color other than red, green, or blue on a color CRT is as "crisp
[and] clean" as the display of a monochrome monitor.  Further, you have to
pay more for a given resolution increase in color than in monochrome.  Color
has the advantage of carrying information better, but the price and resolution/
clarity penalty is real and significant.  Our own product (a 68000 based
process control system) has had to sacrifice in this same area, mainly in
resolution, for cost reasons, and our consoles sell for >$15K!  Apple chose to
drop color to get resolution and clarity for a given price; I think their 
choice was the right one.

(I suppose I better have the standard disclaimers about my employer not
sharing my above opinions....)

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Andy Hogan   Rosemount, Inc.   Mpls MN
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