Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

[Chipp Walters]

Alex,

I may be wrong but I seem to remember the first commercially available
24-bit displays being created for Mac, not PC. I believe it was SuperMac and
Radius who built them. My guess is they (and Apple) are probably the ones
who set on the gamma of 1.7.

Of course, when MS got into it all, they probably didn't check the Mac
gamma, or decided for some other reason to change the 'then standard' which
Mac had set. So, my thinking is that Apple didn't 'decide' to change the
standard, the PC folks did. Of course now the 'standard' is PC gamma.

This is only my suposition, based upon my experience at the time.

best,

Chipp

> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com
> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com]On Behalf Of Alex Rice
> Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 11:59 PM
> To: How to use Revolution
> Subject: Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...
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> I am not arguing with 97% making a de-facto standard. But I'm asking,
> if there is/was a good reason for the Mac's funky gamma, if it was born
> before the MS Windows PC gamma, and if it is a matter of principle that
> Mac's haven't switched to the predominant standard. I'm not a graphics
> professional- just curious.