And if you delete it and it comes back, it unpacks a fresh (read:un0wn3d) copy for you. Maybe it's not such a bad idea. It'd work wonders on any malicious code that had infiltrated that file.
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Uhhh... that "7MHz CPU" that was "not fast enough to draw text and windows on a colour graphics display" at decent resolution was an MC68000. Oddly enough, that's the very same CPU as was used by the Sega Genesis a scant 6 years later, which was capable of displaying 64 colors at a time out of a palette of 512 on a 512x384 display. You might want to rethink your conclusion.
The reason for black & white in the original Mac was for cost reasons, true, but not having to do with the processor. A color CRT (remember, it was an all-in-one machine) jacked the price up immensely. So a black & white 9" CRT was used. Once that design decision was made, there was no use in "wasting" CPU time making color calculations, so QuickDraw was made black & white until later. Once they had time to update QD and a supplier of cheaper color CRT's, then they made the needed adjustments and made some color Macs.
Lisa, on the other hand, had color capability throughout and was scheduled to put it to use right around the time they folded the whole project into the Mac.
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And if you delete it and it comes back, it unpacks a fresh (read:un0wn3d) copy for you. Maybe it's not such a bad idea. It'd work wonders on any malicious code that had infiltrated that file.
So that's why they had such problems with that in Star Trek...
-1, Nitpicking Apple Zealot Uhhh... that "7MHz CPU" that was "not fast enough to draw text and windows on a colour graphics display" at decent resolution was an MC68000. Oddly enough, that's the very same CPU as was used by the Sega Genesis a scant 6 years later, which was capable of displaying 64 colors at a time out of a palette of 512 on a 512x384 display. You might want to rethink your conclusion. The reason for black & white in the original Mac was for cost reasons, true, but not having to do with the processor. A color CRT (remember, it was an all-in-one machine) jacked the price up immensely. So a black & white 9" CRT was used. Once that design decision was made, there was no use in "wasting" CPU time making color calculations, so QuickDraw was made black & white until later. Once they had time to update QD and a supplier of cheaper color CRT's, then they made the needed adjustments and made some color Macs. Lisa, on the other hand, had color capability throughout and was scheduled to put it to use right around the time they folded the whole project into the Mac.