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From: olson@endor.harvard.edu (Eric Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Color for the SE? (Is this a dumb question?)
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Date: Thu, 17-Sep-87 17:29:05 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 17 17:29:05 1987
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In article <1470@ingr.UUCP> wayne@ingr.UUCP (Wayne Padgett) writes:
>This may be dumb question, but hey, I'm not proud, so here goes. Why isn't 
>there a color display for the SE? There's a slot, there's Color quickdraw on
>the Mac II, so what's the problem?

The problem is there is no Color Quickdraw in the SE ROM!  Even though the
Mac II ROM is 256K, and the SE ROM is 256K, the SE ROM does not contain
Color Quickdraw (it does contain some MacVision pictures of the SE design
team, however).  Color Quickdraw, I am told, uses 68020 instructions, and
would therefore not run on an SE anyway.

I suspect the lack of Color Quickdraw in the SE was an intentional crippling
of that machine.  After all, if you could buy an SE and a color card, why
get a Mac II?  This is, of course, only my own sorely misinformed ignorant
opinion, and I don't want to start a flame war.

-Eric



Eric K. Olson		olson@endor.harvard.edu		harvard!endor!olson