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"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
by 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 agoYes, 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.