The original hardware was grayscale, including the NeXTcube Berners-Lee used. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT_MegaPixel_Display https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

The original hardware was grayscale, including the NeXTcube Berners-Lee used. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT_MegaPixel_Display https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT_MegaPixel_Display > The original MegaPixel Display was a monochrome 17" monitor displaying 4 brightness levels (black, dark gray, light gray and white) in a fixed resolution of 1120 x 832 at 92 DPI (just shy of a true megapixel at 931,840 total pixels) at 68 Hz I believe NeXT wanted the higher resolution, to display a full page on a screen, more than they wanted color. Having both would have been very expensive. It wasn't until the NeXTstation Color that NeXT hardware included color. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTstation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTstation informs me the NeXTstation/Turbo had 256 KB VRAM for 4 colors (black, white and two shades of gray), and the NeXTstation Color/Turbo Color had 1.5 MB VRAM for 4,096 colors (12-bit). It adds that the grayscale NeXTstation was US$4,995 (equivalent to $10,400 in 2021) and the color one was US$7,995 (equivalent to $16,600 in 2021). By comparison, in 1990, https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_ii/specs/mac_iifx.html https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_ii/specs/mac_iifx.htm... informs me "The Macintosh IIfx can support multiple displays -- originally at great cost -- using multiple video cards in NuBus expansion slots. The Macintosh IIfx also can support multiple resolutions, 512x384 and 640x480 are common. Portrait (vertical orientation) displays also were popular."