info-mac@utcsrgv.UUCP (info-mac) (05/16/84)
Date: 15 May 1984 13:08-EDT From: Tim McNerney <uw-beaver!TIM@MIT-MC> Subject: Henry's flame about color Macs... To: info-mac@SUMEX-AIM In-Reply-To: Msg of 13 May 84 01:19:31 CDT (Sun) from ihnp4!utzoo!henry at Berkeley Indeed, cheap color is a questionable feature except for games, and "real" color is far too expensive for this market, but a monochrome display with 2 bits/pixel would go a L-O-N-G way. As the folks at MIT's Architecture Machine Group have shown, given black and white plus two shades of gray you can display images without the "jaggies" characteristic of raster displays, and text has a "fully formed" look that is difficult to achieve even on the high resolution 1 bit/pixel displays of $15k-$100 workstations. Speculation: Alan Kay is a stong proponent of this display technology. He may very well convince Apple to introduce a Macintosh capable of displaying shades of gray within the next couple of years.