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Macintosh and Sun machines had black text on white backgrounds. Suns had incredibly large screens with lots of dots. Commodore 64s defaulted to white on blue.
by dsr_ 4y ago
Macintosh and Sun machines had black text on white backgrounds. Suns had incredibly large screens with lots of dots.
Commodore 64s defaulted to white on blue.
Apple II and IBM machines all started out with monochrome white (green, amber) on black.
- vidarh 4y agoAmiga had white on dark blue by default as well, until 1990 (release of AmigaOS 2.0), when they switched to black on grey by default. There was a long and significant period of reaction to the light on dark UI's where a lot of applications arrived either with light on dark as the default or with no option to change it, so I can understand why someone would see solarized as that start of a change towards (renewed) support for light on dark interfaces, though I do think it's overselling its importance.