I wonder how many people know that the spinning beach ball cursor in MacOS is actually a spinning magneto-optical disk…
Is it though?
Did the next machines have MO standard? Is that where it comes from?
The next machines *did* have MO standard, but seeing as how they didn’t have color displays, I don’t think this is actually true.
Are you suggesting Doom of all things was developed on a system that could only display a few grays?
Yeah the original version of Doom was like Space Invaders, where it was monochrome but there was transparent colored gels applied over the monitor to colorized certain areas