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Jobs had control of the hardware and the software. Gates (well, the MS programmers) had to make the software work on the PC hardware of the time (CGA/EGA video
by canucker2016 1y ago
Jobs had control of the hardware and the software.
Gates (well, the MS programmers) had to make the software work on the PC hardware of the time (CGA/EGA video cards including non-square pixels and terrible colour palette, see https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20100625-00/?p=13613 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20100625-00/?p=13...)
- rbanffy 1y agoTerrible palettes were a thing (the Macintosh II was the first Apple computer able to correctly display the Apple logo) in other platforms as well, as were rectangular pixels. Macintosh was the first Apple computer designed to have square pixels (even though the II came close for its original HGR modes, but that was gone with the /// and //e higher resolution modes).