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From: jlo@elan.UUCP (Jeff Lo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: NeXT press release (very long but interesting)
Message-ID: <364@elan.UUCP>
Date: 14 Oct 88 17:44:53 GMT
References: <5423@juniper.uucp> <72886@sun.uucp> <635@ardent.UUCP>
Reply-To: jlo@elan.UUCP (Jeff Lo)
Organization: Elan Computer Group, Inc., Palo Alto, CA
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In article <635@ardent.UUCP> kmw@ardent.UUCP (Ken Wallich) writes:
>any of them any time soon), but how about for 'the rest of us'?  Anyone know
>what the depth of the grayscale is?  8bit? 24bit?  And a two button mouse,
>how quaint.  Perfectly suited for Xwindows, when it's ported.  Sounds like
>a cute box, can't wait to see how it performs on the street.

Jobs made no mention of how many bits the monitor is, but rumors I have
heard, and an article in the Business section of the San Jose Mercury News
say that it is only 2 bits per pixel. Oh well, I guess it's better than
black and white.

I too would like to see X Windows on the beast (my boss probably won't
buy one unless it has X Windows) but it doesn't sound like NeXT will do
the port since they haven't said word one about X.
-- 
Jeff Lo
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