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From: sho@pur-phy (Sho Kuwamoto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: 2 or 4 bit QDraw (was Mac II and VGA  (icky-poo, IBM stuff))
Message-ID: <2183@pur-phy>
Date: 24 Apr 89 00:10:48 GMT
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In article <10787@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> captkidd@athena.mit.edu (Ivan Cavero Belaunde) writes:
<Actually, I kinda wish Apple had standardized on a minimum of 2 or 4 bit
<QuickDraw display capability on their new machines.  Anyone who has seen
<the NeXT machine's display (or Apple's own Fuzzy Fonts, for that matter),
<will tell you that the use of grey scale type (to smooth out edges and
<the like) will improve readability SIGNIFICANTLY. [...]

Bravo!  I also wish that they had reserved two shades of gray in CLUTs
as well as black and white.

-Sho