On Fri, 2024-07-26 at 13:16 -0600, home user via users wrote: > 3 bits codes 8 colors: the 3 primaries, the 3 secondaries, white, and > black. 4 bits (1 nibble) adds 8 more colors: a dark version each of > the 8 3-bit colors. All goes back decades, to primitive color > devices.
There are two oddities in it, though: While obviously you can have dark or bright red. What do you do with white (111) and black (000)? Do you get two different greys to go with them? ;-) Yes, supposedly, but I remember that some terminals did odd things. Same as, you might use the annoying flashing ANSI code, but various terminals allowed you to disable it. So, when you wrote something alert people to pay attention to flashing, or grey text, you had to be aware that not everyone was going to see that. Not to mention that there were still people using monochrome monitors. It's years since I played with ANSI (I used to run a dial-in BBS). -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
