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From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
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Subject: Re: Color for the SE? (Is this a dumb question?)
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Date: Fri, 18-Sep-87 19:03:57 EDT
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If apple had included color quickdraw in the SE's ROM instead of pictures
of the Mac development team, then there would be a way for third
parties to produce color boards for the SE that work with the standard
for Macintosh color applications.

If apple makes color quickdraw available as a supported system
upgrade, on an O.E.M. basis to hardware vendors (in the same way they
already license their system software) then only those people who
bought color boards would give up RAM space for the a RAM version of
color quickdraw.  This would even allow color displays to be added to
MacPluses on their SCSI port.  This idea is particularly nice since
Color QuickDraw supports multiple displays (drag windows between your
new color screen and the stock macPlus/SE screen.)  Apple could even
make a few bucks by legitimizing this market by selling a few high
priced units themselves.  How about it Apple?

(I just hope apple does it soon enough that we don't get a rash of
applications that assume that SE's can _never_ have Color QuickDraw
instead of looking at the HasColor field of the SysEnvirons record
like they should.)

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