Pink Screen of Death? (was: Re: Hallelujah!) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

12 Apr 1999

This is the screen scheme from the early WordPerfect/DOS days of Jerry's
young years.
    -w.

-----Original Message-----
From: Zane H. Healy &lt;healyzh(a)aracnet.com&gt;
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
Date: Monday, April 12, 1999 7:33 PM
Subject: Re: Pink Screen of Death? (was: Re: Hallelujah!)

...
 >> Well, I don't know. However, MS
Word/Windows and /Macintosh has a strange
...
 >> option: to have large white letters on a blue
background instead of black
...
 >> on white. This has nothing to do with any
color settings, and no other
>> colors can be used in a similar way. This may have classic reasons. Anyone
...
    know? 
Don't know the exact reason but that was the default color
combination of the DOS version of MS Word (and every day I use
the current version, I long for the old one).

George 
I think this has something to do with a request for an enhancement made by
Jerry Pornelle <sp> believe it or not.  I read something recenty where he
wrote about having gotten MS to add some special colour combination for him.
...

 Zane
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