bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader) (11/02/88)
dhosek@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Donald Hosek) writes: > Even more important to consider is, how useful is it to have color on the > display if you can't print in color? Quite... Speaking as one data point, I could care less about the printing. I spend 99.999% of my time staring at the display, not printouts. So it's the DISPLAY that I want to be pleasant & bearable (and color certainly helps in that regard)... -Miles
kent@lloyd.camex.uucp (Kent Borg) (11/11/88)
In article <8828@spl1.UUCP> bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader) writes: >dhosek@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Donald Hosek) writes: >> Even more important to consider is, how useful is it to have color on the >> display if you can't print in color? > >Quite... > >Speaking as one data point, I could care less about the printing. I >spend 99.999% of my time staring at the display, not printouts. So >it's the DISPLAY that I want to be pleasant & bearable (and color >certainly helps in that regard)... > >-Miles No one I know can print what they see on TV, but I know lots of people who couldn't _conceive_ of watching a Black and White set. (Actually, no one I know can print what is on their B&Ws either...) A TV can do things paper can't, and people pay millions of dollars for those things (whether TV is good for people or society is another question). Just because you cannot print the color output that is on your CRT doesn't mean it is useless. Having things on paper is very useful, but it is not the Reason for Existance. Kent Borg kent@lloyd.uucp or hscfvax!lloyd!kent
ronc@fai.fai.com (Ronald O. Christian) (11/16/88)
In article <UXPSr8y00UkaA-eVNU@andrew.cmu.edu> bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader) writes: >[...] So >it's the DISPLAY that I want to be pleasant & bearable (and color >certainly helps in that regard)... Obviously he's never had to work with Microsoft Windows... :-) Ron -- Ronald O. Christian (Fujitsu America Inc., San Jose, Calif.) {amdahl, pyramid, sun, unisoft, uunet}!fai!ronc -or- ronc@fai.com