jhall@ihuxu.UUCP (John R. Hall-"the samurai MTS") (07/25/84)
Color isn't always desirable for image processing. The last place I worked at, the customer wasn't willing to pay the price for storage of grey (4-bit) images; color was out of the question. In their opinion, the enhanced image was not worth the additional storage cost. Of course, we're not talking about a workstation here; it probably would have cost a million dollars to add color. There are also some tricks that can be played, but I can't talk about them. The current project I'm on uses a display control terminal which is just a VT100 B/W terminal. Color is an option, but (a typical ATT Bell Labs problem?) I have no contact with the customer, so I don't know if they would be willing to pay the several thousand dollars it would cost. I like color and wish the customer wanted it so we would have to buy some color terminals for me to play with in the lab. I don't know about circuit design, except I took a course at Univ. of Illinois where the prof said it wasn't clear that color workstations sped up the development of a computer design. I'm open-minded; seems to me like it might be useful. -- --John R. Hall, ...ihnp4!ihuxu!jhall