Re: [NTLK] OT: why not the Palm T|X, though it has appeal

From: Karel Jansens (kareljansens_at_tiscalinet.be)
Date: Sun Oct 16 2005 - 15:35:53 PDT

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William Pociengel wrote:
> John Hay wrote:
> <snip>
>
>>p.s. ....as much as a color screen could be a little on the tacky
>>side, eats up batteries, requires more operating system overhead, a
>>color Newton screen sure would be nice. Alas, I can't imagine a better
>
>
> so lets see 16 shades of grey could be mapped into 16 shades (hues) of
> color. So in a way we _could_ get color, just not a bunch of it.
>
> hmmmm we'd need a method of mapping (in some sort of HW) 16 shades of
> grey (gray) into 16 colors (colours). mmmmmmmm s/b doable I wonder how
> much space it would take up inside?
>
> I'm going out to the pond with the laptop and think.

I thought NewtonOS already had colour support built in. After all,
doesn't that VGA-card display in colour on an external monitor?

Karel Jansens

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