White on blue (was Re: Pink Screen of Death? (was: Re:

From: Lawrence Walker <lwalker_at_mail.interlog.com>
Date: Mon Apr 12 16:57:01 1999

On 12 Apr 99 at 16:10, Cameron Kaiser wrote:

> ::> This [white on blue] may have classic reasons. Anyone know?
> ::
> ::In 1984 Commodore produced as the reason for white letters on a blue
> ::background a NASA study that found this to be the easiest combination on
> ::the eyes, especially when you had limitied resolution.
>
> April Fools was a few weeks ago, wasn't it? :-P
>
> --
> -------------------------- personal page: http://calvin.ptloma.edu/~spectre/ --
> Cameron Kaiser Database Programmer/Administrative Computing


 Somewhere I have a copy of a study that proves amber is the easiest on the
eyes. Now if Tramiel had adopted that instead of green maybe HE would be king
of the world instead of Gates. I suspect however that "Big Blue" had long
before planted a subliminal message in our collective minds which negated all
this. They just forgot to update in regard to Gates.

ciao larry
lwalker_at_interlog.com

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