Re: CAS attack

On 6/26/22 21:33, VanguardLH wrote:
> bad sector wrote:
> 
>> About the least eye-stressing backgrounds, ahemmm, I HATE to say this,
>> but *Bill Gates WAS (almost) right* on the money with his
>> windows-green :-)
> 
> Don't think that was his choice, just the only available phosphor color
> for a monochrome CRT.  When amber phosphor came out, oooh, it was so
> much easier to read.  Just don't turn up the brightness too high on
> either, or there's be a lot of blooming.  Green has a burn-in problem.
> Amber could be turned up on brightness without burn-in.  Man, I'm old.

Windows 95 came on color computers, forget what my Amiga had
but it wasn't green.

> Bill sold Seattle DOS to IBM as MS-DOS, and used existing parts to build
> a PC.  There were computers before the Age of Gates.

My first 3 were a Vic20, then a C64 and then Apple-II.

>> Tupolev spent a LOT of effort to come up with what 
>> THEY insisted was the best: 
>>
>> https://i.pinimg.com/originals/dd/c7/e7/ddc7e797e50dfab4a9660bc585c6dd5a.jpg
> 
> That teal colored panel is very distracting, and why a non-black laptop
> case would be, too.  Your Boing pic makes the console better disappear
> with its dark gray color.  

The laptop monitors have so little border now that 
even I wouldn't notice it being black, what I'm talking 
about is a laptop or desktop keyboard and its immediate
surroundings. I've got no use for backlit stuff seeing 
that I'm never in that level of dark environment. The 
linked greenish panel colors would be equivalent computer 
backgrounds or wallpapers. For MY eyes grass green IS
the least tiring of all.
  
>> the lighting sometimes makes them look more 'inkish':
>>
>> https://ctl.s6img.com/society6/img/9tlWo27iuyU3BX6F0X7xdeBcopo/w_1500/bags/medium/close/~artwork,fw_3500,fh_3500,fx_-879,iw_5258,ih_3500/s6-original-art-uploads/society6/uploads/misc/3f57e92bbb8641479236eb1f04e5f6dd/~~/tupolev-tu-154-cockpit-bags.jpg
> 
> Maybe a color-blind person chose the panel color.
> 
>> They were right (before Billy even) and now the 
>> american makers are sliding over to much lighter 
>> beige-like colors as well:
>>
>> https://cdn.shoplightspeed.com/shops/603831/files/10668254/890x820x2/aviation-training-graphics-cockpit-training-poster.jpg
> 
> Or to differentiate themself from a competitor, or maximize visibility
> of printing on the panel in low-light.

No, the actual airplane panel colors have been made
much lighter because they couldn't fight scientific
evidence anymore. As you notice most gauges have black 
backgrounds so having them on a dark panel makes it 
much harder to identify and locate any one of them.
This alone calls for a light background, the argument
then narrows down to which color light and that's where 
eye fatigue comes in favoring greens.


>> I was in my twenties when I once entered a shoe store
>> in the days when them very pointed shoes were the fad.
> 
> A long time ago, there were no left and right shoes.  A shoe fit on
> either foot. Wasn't until 1818 when someone in Philadelphia realized
> the outside arch of the foot is different from left to right, and
> created left and right side shoes.

Hehe, reminds me of a WW-I military truck the local 
blacksmith had to do some repairs on. He pointed
out to me the tire tread, it's exactly symmetrical
so trackers couldn't tel which way it was going :-)