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The NeXTstation, which was the first "affordable" color solution for NEXTSTEP, has a 16-bit framebuffer, but instead of rendering the desktop in 65,536 colors (as per Windows or Mac hardware, say), it rendered in 12-bit color with 4-bits of alpha channel (transparency).

That means it had a palette of 4096 colors, with all colors available at once on the display (not like, say, the Amiga or Apple IIgs with a 4096 color palette, but video modes with a small subset of those colors available (yes, yes, HAM mode excluded). Additionally, anything on the screen had 16 levels of opacity available.

It's interesting to see in person, on the actual hardware (especially on a good LCD display). With dithering, it looks very close to 24-bit truecolor.

(The NeXT Dimension color board for the Cube allowed 24-bit color with 8-bits alpha, but that was not so frequently used -- less so than most NeXT hardware even...)

But that's not nearly the weirdest that NEXTSTEP-capable hardware got, when it came to color video display...

#NeXT #NEXTSTEP #NeXTstation #NeXTCube #OS #OpenStep #DisplayPostScript #PostScript #GUI #UNIX #MC68K #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #computinghistory #SteveJobs #tech

#next #nextstep #nextstation #nextcube #os #openstep

Michael Piotrowski @[email protected] · 2025-03-24 · 12:59 UTC

I’m about to try and teach #PostScript programming to #DigitalHumanities students.

I used to teach #Inform7 in this course, which they hated. We’ll see how it goes…

#postscript #digitalhumanities #inform7

Retrópolis @[email protected] · 2024-09-12 · 01:00 UTC

Episódio 156 – NeXT e NeXTSTEP – Parte B

https://retropolis.com.br/2024/09/11/episodio-156-parte-b/

#Podcast #AfterSTEP #AldusFreehand #AltsysVirtuoso #Apple #canon #CarnegieMellon #CERN #Cocoa #Copland #Darwin #Doom #DoomII #FVWM #GilAmelio #JohnCarmack #Linux #MacOSX #Mach #NeXT #NeXTSoftwareInc #NeXTCube #NeXTstation #NEXTSTEP #objectstation #ObjectiveC #OPENSTEP #PizzaBox #podcast #Postscript #Previous #Quake #Retrocomputao #Retrpolis #Rhapsody #SistemaOperacional #slab #SteveJobs #Tal

#tal #stevejobs #slab #sistemaoperacional #rhapsody #retrpolis

David Cantrell 🏏 @[email protected] · 2024-05-01 · 22:58 UTC

I saw someone else do this, so I thought I should too ...

Languages I have used to write software for other people to use, in roughly chronological order: #BASIC #Z80assembler #Pascal #C #BCPL #MIPSassembler #LotusAmiproMacros 😃 #VisualBASIC #DataEase #SQL #Java #Javascript #Perl #BourneShell #bash #Postscript #Rust. It saddens me that I have never perpetrated #Forth or #Lisp for any other audience than myself. It doesn't sadden me that I have forgotten at least some of them due to lack of use.

#basic #z80assembler #pascal #c #bcpl #mipsassembler

David Cantrell 🏏 @DrHyde · 2024-05-01 · 22:58 UTC

I saw someone else do this, so I thought I should too ...

Languages I have used to write software for other people to use, in roughly chronological order: #BASIC #Z80assembler #Pascal #C #BCPL #MIPSassembler #LotusAmiproMacros 😃 #VisualBASIC #DataEase #SQL #Java #Javascript #Perl #BourneShell #bash #Postscript #Rust. It saddens me that I have never perpetrated #Forth or #Lisp for any other audience than myself. It doesn't sadden me that I have forgotten at least some of them due to lack of use.

#basic #z80assembler #pascal #c #bcpl #mipsassembler

David Cantrell 🏏 @[email protected] · 2024-05-01 · 22:58 UTC

I saw someone else do this, so I thought I should too ...

Languages I have used to write software for other people to use, in roughly chronological order: #BASIC #Z80assembler #Pascal #C #BCPL #MIPSassembler #LotusAmiproMacros 😃 #VisualBASIC #DataEase #SQL #Java #Javascript #Perl #BourneShell #bash #Postscript #Rust. It saddens me that I have never perpetrated #Forth or #Lisp for any other audience than myself. It doesn't sadden me that I have forgotten at least some of them due to lack of use.

#basic #z80assembler #pascal #c #bcpl #mipsassembler

David Cantrell 🏏 @[email protected] · 2024-05-01 · 22:58 UTC

I saw someone else do this, so I thought I should too ...

Languages I have used to write software for other people to use, in roughly chronological order: #BASIC #Z80assembler #Pascal #C #BCPL #MIPSassembler #LotusAmiproMacros 😃 #VisualBASIC #DataEase #SQL #Java #Javascript #Perl #BourneShell #bash #Postscript #Rust. It saddens me that I have never perpetrated #Forth or #Lisp for any other audience than myself. It doesn't sadden me that I have forgotten at least some of them due to lack of use.

#lisp #forth #rust #postscript #bash #bourneshell

David Cantrell 🏏 @[email protected] · 2024-05-01 · 22:58 UTC

I saw someone else do this, so I thought I should too ...

Languages I have used to write software for other people to use, in roughly chronological order: #BASIC #Z80assembler #Pascal #C #BCPL #MIPSassembler #LotusAmiproMacros 😃 #VisualBASIC #DataEase #SQL #Java #Javascript #Perl #BourneShell #bash #Postscript #Rust. It saddens me that I have never perpetrated #Forth or #Lisp for any other audience than myself. It doesn't sadden me that I have forgotten at least some of them due to lack of use.

#basic #z80assembler #pascal #c #bcpl #mipsassembler

PSiReN-X :verified_flashing: @[email protected] · 2023-11-19 · 19:51 UTC

(@[email protected])

#PostScript:

#TopTip:

#AlwaysRemember to #MakeSure you have a #BuddySystem in #Place; otherwise, you may #FindYourself sat on an #ImaginaryNaughtyStep #Indefinitely for #DoingNothingWrong because...

#Reasons...

🧙⚔️🤖🐺🤖⚔️🧙 | 🪐🦹🚀🦄🚀🦹🪐

#TerraNine: No Return (Ott Remix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ho7vRt_81o

#postscript #toptip #alwaysremember #makesure #buddysystem #place

IT News @[email protected] · 2019-12-03 · 20:05 UTC

Postscript raises $4.5M to help Shopify shops stay connected with customers over SMS - Back in February, we wrote that Postscript “wants to be the Mailchimp for SMS.” Now they’ve raised $... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/JPKp7xoboOI/ #recentfunding #ycombinator #accomplice #postscript #startups #tc

#tc #startups #postscript #accomplice #ycombinator #recentfunding