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From: pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Video displays.
Message-ID: <890@sandino.quintus.UUCP>
Date: 22 Apr 88 00:44:22 GMT
References: <549@zehntel.UUCP> <3467@gryphon.CTS.COM> <6210@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
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Summary: Color allows the presentation of more information

In article <6210@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>, flaig@cit-vlsi.Caltech.Edu (Charles M. Flaig) writes:
> The times you need color is when you are playing games, working on anima-
> tions, or presenting information (such as maps) where color provides impor-
> tant information.
>
> Arguments (no flames) welcome.

Ok, an argument.  Color allows the presentation of more information in
the same space.  For example, wouldn't it sometimes be nice, when you
edit C code, to see which things are macros and which are procedures?
Or to see which calls are to library procedures?  Or to see which calls
are to functions defined in THIS file?  Or for comments to stand out?
Or to see which parts of the file have been modified recently, or by
other people?  (Imagine looking at souce code where the red printing was
the code that had just been changed, and the black printing hadn't been
changed since the file was first written, and shades in between were
various ages in between.)  Or to see variable scoping?  Or ... should I
go on?  These are only suggestions for C code.  One can easily think of
similar bits of information that would be useful for other applications.
All this can be nicely represented with color (but not at the same time
:-).

And besides, color is prettier to look at!

Now, should I start arguing for high resolution, or do you see how
useful that is?
-- 
-Peter Schachte
pds@quintus.uucp
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