Number: 1395

Date: 12-Jun-84 16':15':57

Submitter: le.pasa

Source: Roger Beeman, Boeing

Subject: COLOR bugs

Lisp Version: Fugue4/Fugue6

Description: '
 1.  X3, and 3mb microcode crashed system on (LOGOUT) because user is not told  in the documentation to set (DISPLAYOFF T).'
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2.  LOADED COLOR.DCOM and called (COLORDEMO).  COLORMAPCREATE broke (called by COLORMAPOF) .  Inspect code of COLORDISPLAY and find that LastSystemColorMap is NOBIND and must be set to NIL.   Also, we had to set \STOPCOLOR to \DOLPHINSTOPCOLOR. '
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3.  Called (WELL 5) and get break saying 16 (or 17 or 18) are Illegal arguments.  We did not try to go beyond 15 colors.  '
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Date': 12 Jun 84 17':40 PDT'
From': Sheil.pa'
Subject': Request for documentation change'
To': 1100support.pasa'
cc': martino.pasa, lispsupport, vanmelle'
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During their visit Monday, Boeing asked why they could not run color on a Dolphin that had both sets of net ucode.'
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I found out that the two net ucode configuration was only released to support gateways and that it wasnt intended to support a normal workstation. Especially not color, which takes so much of the memory bandwidth that a gateway running color would be ghastly.'
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But they just wanted a workstation that lived on both nets and didnt understand why it didnt work. Turns out that it''s because there is no room.'
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When this was explained to them, they were only a little mollified and demanded to know why this limitation was not in the documentation (where it is explained that the floating point doesnt fit in this configuration). I calmed them down by saying that I''d get it included next release (of documentation).'
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I think this is Guide, rather than Lisp manual, documentation. If so, could whoever maintains this please respond indicating whether they are willing to make this minor change?'
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Beau'
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Edit-By: le.pasa

Edit-Date: 18-Jun-84 11':24':41

Attn: Burton.pa

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System: Windows and Graphics

Subsystem: Color

Machine: 1100

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Difficulty: Moderate

Frequency: Everytime

Impact: Annoying

Priority: Perhaps

Status: Open

Problem Type: Design - UI

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