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

From: Lawrence Walker <lwalker_at_mail.interlog.com>
Date: Mon Apr 12 16:56:59 1999

On 12 Apr 99 at 15:35, Paul Passmore wrote:

> > 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
>
 Anyone remember the original name of the company ? Hint: not what one would
expect from a solid down-to-earth god-fearing Mormon state like Utah.
 I have a very spacy ad in an old PC World whose slogan is " A word processor
should be an etension of your mind" .

ciao larry
lwalker_at_interlog.com

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