Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!nelson From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: the word "bitmap" Message-ID: Date: 5 Jan 89 15:13:07 GMT References: <8568@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <7549@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <8901050417.AA16210@explorer.dgp.toronto.edu> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Postdam NY Lines: 8 In-reply-to: alain@dgp.toronto.edu's message of 5 Jan 89 04:17:06 GMT The X Window System uses the term pixmap. Once you hear that word and know what it means, bitmap is hard to interpret as anything but a "map of bits", i.e. ones and zeroes. -russ -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) "I saved the whales!" - Rebecca L. Nelson, 3.5 years old, on receiving her Christmas present of a whale "adoption" certificate. Bless her liberal heart.