Pink Screen of Death? (was: Re: Hallelujah!)

From: Paul Passmore <fpp_at_concentric.net>
Date: Mon Apr 12 17:35:46 1999

> 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).

Well perhaps it is because the de-facto standard DOS wordprocessor was Word
Perfect. Their system was default blue screen and white letters. A long long
time ago in a system far far away Microsoft was just another software
company and they 'adopted' WordPerfect's colors and emulated WP commands.
Paul
Received on Mon Apr 12 1999 - 17:35:46 BST