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Article #19220Re: Color for the SE? (Is this a dumb question?)
From: Eric Olson
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1987 21:29
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1987 21:29
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In article <1470@ingr.UUCP> wayne@ingr.UUCP (Wayne Padgett) writes: >This may be dumb question, but hey, I'm not proud, so here goes. Why isn't >there a color display for the SE? There's a slot, there's Color quickdraw on >the Mac II, so what's the problem? The problem is there is no Color Quickdraw in the SE ROM! Even though the Mac II ROM is 256K, and the SE ROM is 256K, the SE ROM does not contain Color Quickdraw (it does contain some MacVision pictures of the SE design team, however). Color Quickdraw, I am told, uses 68020 instructions, and would therefore not run on an SE anyway. I suspect the lack of Color Quickdraw in the SE was an intentional crippling of that machine. After all, if you could buy an SE and a color card, why get a Mac II? This is, of course, only my own sorely misinformed ignorant opinion, and I don't want to start a flame war. -Eric Eric K. Olson olson@endor.harvard.edu harvard!endor!olson
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!endor!olson From: olson@endor.harvard.edu (Eric Olson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Color for the SE? (Is this a dumb question?) Message-ID: <2847@husc6.UUCP> Date: Thu, 17-Sep-87 17:29:05 EDT Article-I.D.: husc6.2847 Posted: Thu Sep 17 17:29:05 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 19-Sep-87 15:42:30 EDT References: <1470@ingr.UUCP> Sender: news@husc6.UUCP Reply-To: olson@endor.UUCP (Eric Olson) Organization: Aiken Computation Lab Harvard, Cambridge, MA Lines: 21 Keywords: Slot Software Why not?