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Re: [SLE] early vi -- ed -- edlin
- From: James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 20:16:28 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <4374FC18.9080100@xxxxxxxxxx>
Nick Zentena wrote:
> On Friday 11 November 2005 14:24, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> On Friday 11 November 2005 2:06 pm, James Knott wrote:
>>> Jerry Feldman wrote:
>>>
>>> .
>>>
>>>> it was interesting that when the PC came out, it really had no support
>>>> for color or any of the more interesting stuff that its competitors,
>>>> like Apple, had. I think IBM had the view of the drab corporate desktop
>>>> where noone wanted color or graphics.
>>> The original PC supported colour. Green IIRC. ;-)
>> Henry Ford said about the Model T, "You can paint it any color, so long as
>> it's black".
>
>
> The PC supported CGA. 16 colours?
>
> Nick
>
IIRC, when the IBM PC was first released, it supported only monochrome
text. CGA came out slightly later.
> On Friday 11 November 2005 14:24, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> On Friday 11 November 2005 2:06 pm, James Knott wrote:
>>> Jerry Feldman wrote:
>>>
>>> .
>>>
>>>> it was interesting that when the PC came out, it really had no support
>>>> for color or any of the more interesting stuff that its competitors,
>>>> like Apple, had. I think IBM had the view of the drab corporate desktop
>>>> where noone wanted color or graphics.
>>> The original PC supported colour. Green IIRC. ;-)
>> Henry Ford said about the Model T, "You can paint it any color, so long as
>> it's black".
>
>
> The PC supported CGA. 16 colours?
>
> Nick
>
IIRC, when the IBM PC was first released, it supported only monochrome
text. CGA came out slightly later.
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