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From: brad@cayman.COM (Brad Parker)
Newsgroups: alt.next,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: NeXT
Message-ID: <1570@cayman.COM>
Date: 17 Oct 88 11:33:49 GMT
References: <15522@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: Cayman Systems Inc., Cambridge Ma
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From article <15522@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, by edmoy@violet.berkeley.edu:
>> Would one of you more studly graphics folks tell me the advantage to doing
>> things thus, as opposed to providing one-bit pixels at somewhat finer
>> resolution?  Sufficient response will be answered in summarization.

Hurumph... I sez to myself - "I've done painters!" ;-)
I suspect the 2 bits of gray scale allows them to use "gray scale fonts" which
give the machines more "apparent" resolution. Go look at a Jupiter graphics
terminait uses the same concept). The font's look *much* better with just
a tiny bit (har har) more depth.
-- 
"What will you do when you wake up one morning to find that God's made you
blind in a beautiful person's world and all those great recepies have let you
down, and you're twenty and a half and you're not getting age where you go look
for the boys 'says I love you lets get married and have kids." -Billy Bragg.