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

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
Date: Mon Apr 12 22:32:13 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).
>
>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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