On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 08:13:16PM +0000, David Woolley wrote: > Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > > >well, early on (before color), black text on a white background was > >the usual. But with colors, for quite a while white text on a black > >background was the rule. Recently I've seen some black-on-white > > Are you sure? All the early monochrome displays I encountered were > green or orange on black. In some cases that was due to the actual
I was referring to configurations of xterm (which is usually enough for the audience, who generally aren't _that_ old). Pre-X.... generally it was still light-colored text on dark backgrounds. White phosphors always were too expensive for CRT's; the best were some variety of light blue. Dirt-cheap ones were some type of green or red. -- Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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