[rescue] Weird Silicon Graphics o2 graphics issues

[Phil Stracchino]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 02:52:50PM -0400, Andrew Weiss wrote:
> I never understood really why X was designed in this broken way.  Why 
> "use-up" colors at all?... A little bit of extra logic and you could 
> display all visible apps with any color they want.  I think even early 
> versions of Windows did this so X is not alone.

It was a sound design for what it was originally designed to do, on the
hardware it was designed to do it on.


-- 
 .*********  Fight Back!  It may not be just YOUR life at risk.  *********.
 : phil stracchino : unix ronin : renaissance man : mystic zen biker geek :
 :  alaric at caerllewys.net : alaric-ruthven at earthlink.net : phil at latt.net  :
 :   2000 CBR929RR, 1991 VFR750F3 (foully murdered), 1986 VF500F (sold)   :
 :    Linux Now!   ...Because friends don't let friends use Microsoft.    :