On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Matt inson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I just wanted to ask a simple question. Would command line interfaces > look better on laptops and other LCD screens if they are using black text on > white backgrounds, rather than the usual reverse (white text on black, as > MS-DOS normally had it)? I'm aware that white text on blue was popular, but > I thought that with LCD it looked better to reverse it. I guess it would > make DOS look kind of like a word processor in a GUI environment, though. > With CRT screens it was tiresome to look at so much light being projected > out of the screen at once, and I noticed that FreeDOS is being sold/packaged > with new laptops. LCDs are of course very good these days, so you display > dark images, etc., pretty well without a hitch, so maybe it doesn't really > matter. I thought it'd be neat though to see a new version of "DOS," some > kind of MS-DOS or freeDOS or whatever it is I'm writing to here, and have > the colors be black text on white, but maybe you guys already have color > options in the configuration.
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