Re: min-colors 88

[Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

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Yuri Khan wrote:

>> I keep seeing 88 for min-colors. I wonder if a different
>> number would be more appropriate, as it seems that 88 is
>> quite arbitrary.
>
> Historically, there existed terminals that supported
> a maximum of 8 colors, 16 colors, 88 colors (basic 16 +
> 4×4×4 color cube + 8 grays?), then 256 colors (basic 16 +
> 6×6×6 cube + 24 grays), and finally 24-bit color.

Were there no monochrome terminals?

My first computer was the Mac Plus:

  A compact Mac, the Plus has a 9-inch (23 cm) 512x342 pixel
  monochrome display with a resolution of 72 PPI, identical to
  that of previous Macintosh models. [1]

This didn't prevent it from having awesome graphics,
sometimes:

  https://dataswamp.org/~incal/pimgs/dc.png

1986 game!

You can run on Linux with the Mini vMac emulator [2] - mail me
if you need ROMs ...


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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Plus
[2] https://www.gryphel.com/c/minivmac/dnld_std.html

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