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Is that inherent to CRTs? Windows and Mac used black text on white background in their GUIs from the beginning. Even some early text mode computers used a col

Is that inherent to CRTs? Windows and Mac used black text on white background in their GUIs from the beginning. Even some early text mode computers used a colored/bright background - my personal experience was on the TI-99 in its onboard BASIC environment. Scanlines were normal at the time - I think we only see them as ugly now after getting used to LCDs.

dfxm12 4y ago
"in the beginnings with CRT" almost certainly refers to monochrome "green screen" monitors. The monitors you got with Macs and most monitors that came out with Windows 3.1 were pretty different.
- leoc 4y ago
  Yes, it's certainly not impossible to display white backgrounds well on CRTs in general (consider upmarket late-'90s CRT monitors in particular, still overall decent displays by modern standards) but it wasn't to be taken for granted on early-'80s CRTs. White-background display conventions more or less came in with the Engelbart/PARC GUI and IIRC (I think Levy's Insanely Great or https://folklore.org https://folklore.org discusses this?) Apple put a lot of effort into making the original Mac's (and I assume Lisa's) monochrome display pleasant to use in that manner.