Preventing CGA revisionist history

[Chris M]

wait a cotton picking minute...isn't there a reference
in "Revolution in the Valley" to a game written by
Bill Gates with a big BROWN donkey??? I don't own the
book, obviously stating from memory. Maybe someone can
confirm or deny.

--- Bill Sudbrink <wh.sudbrink at verizon.net> wrote:

> > Wait a second -- while your explanation very
> completely explains HOW, it 
> > does not explain WHY.  Why did IBM go through all
> that trouble to turn 
> > #6 brown?
> 
> My bet, at the time, it was popular to display
> little "landscapes" as
> part of system demos.  Lower third of the screen
> green (for grass)
> upper two thirds blue (for sky) some kind of small
> building represented
> in red (for bricks) and... a tree.  You need brown
> for the trunk.
> 
> 


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