> Of course not, neither Mac, nor Lisa could display > 80x25x16 or 40x25x16 > color text mode
Maybe that's the whole point, hmmm? The PCs have dedicated crt controllers...the Mac didn't. These were highly programmable, had diverse textual and graphical modes. >which the video makes it hard to > distinguish between. Absolutely. And that's the beauty of it (it wasn't all that hard to distinguish actually. A marvel on such early equipment though). > It's nice that someone bothered to write the > assembly code to do that, > but, meh. Truth be told, that's either a 2K or 4K > display. It's an original IBM CGA 5153. Not sure what you mean by 2K or 4K. > Compare that to digital camera displays whose real > state is measured in megapixels, and it's not all > that impressive. It's about the size of > two icons, if that. :-) Ummm, what decade are we talking about here? You're comparing a 1981 display to a post 2000 digital camera? Get real. > Then again, neither could the IBM PC's CGA display > do 720x384 (half of a > printed page) black and white that looked as good. Not sure if that's a reference to the Lisa, but the Mac did 512 x 342. The IBM MDA card displayed 720 x 348 on any compatible monochrome monitor, any color (paper white displays weren't commonly used with IBM stuph). And granted, no graphics until the Hercules card came out. > Most you could get > from a CGA card is 640x200x2. True, but for $2500, the price of the original 128k Mac IIRC, you could get a PC or compatible with double the resolution, with 8 or 16 colors. > Chris M wrote: > > >let's see if I'm allowed to post to Lisa list > today. I > >don't know about all that. Could an early Mac do > this: > > > >http://www.oldskool.org/pc/8088_Corruption > > > > > > > -- > LisaList is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> > and... > > Shop buy.com and save. > <http://lowendmac.com/ad/buy.com.html> > > Support Low End Mac > <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > LisaList info: > <http://lowendmac.com/lists/lisa.html> > --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; > Send list messages to: > <mailto:lisalist@mail.maclaunch.com> > To unsubscribe, email: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For digest mode, email: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subscription questions: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/lisalist%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > iPod Accessories for Less > at 1-800-iPOD.COM > Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal > www.1800ipod.com > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- LisaList is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Shop buy.com and save. <http://lowendmac.com/ad/buy.com.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> LisaList info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/lisa.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:lisalist@mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/lisalist%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
