8 Oct
2011
8 Oct
'11
6:17 p.m.
On 08/10/11 8:31 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Sat, 8 Oct 2011, Toby Thain wrote:
This more reflects the hardware cost realities of the time, both in
cards and monitors. For a time, post-Jobs Apple sold 12" & 13"
grey-scale (1-8 bit) monitors alongside their colour Trinitron range.
Their full page Portrait and 21" Two Page Display could do 1 and 2 bit
grey scale (latter like the first NeXT). Sun was shipping megapixel 1
bit video around 1989 (entry level SS1).
Video cards that could drive 24 bits were still expensive circa 1990 (i
paid something like $4000 for a Truevision NuVista which was among the
first to fully support Colour QuickDraw up to 32 bits), but both the Mac
II and the NeXT range went there as soon as the technology was
available. There were 24 bit cards with system software hacks before
Colour QuickDraw (RasterOps planar). I think variations of these were
even available for the non-NuBus form factor Macs.
--Toby
Now we're done beating Apple down, we can
talk about what NeXT did that
was ahead of its time. :)
- booted from Apple, Jobs sold all but one Apple share for a $400m windfall.
- Founded NeXT with $7m and A LOT to prove.
- Spec'd a ridiculous dream workstation: DSP, MO, 12" cube magnesium
chassis, matt black, exotic UNIX, Display PostScript, Objective C,
megapixel display with grey scale (and later, deep colour).
NeXT is therefore a vanity product& its failure in the market was
predictable. Discuss.
Lisa/NeXT were progreesive attempts towards Jobs' dream. (which was WAY
different from Woniak's dream!)
CLOSED. Avoidance of industry standard removable storage.
HI-res B&W (was Jobs, by any chance, color blind?)