The Making of Macintosh
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Facing a hard deadline forced the team to make several major decisions
that resulted in a sort of domino effect. High-resolution graphics had always
been a primary goal for the Mac, but even as late as 1982 the nine-inch
diagonal monitor could display only 384 by 256 pixels. That was certainly
acceptable for graphics, but not exactly at the leading edge of technology.
George Crow, analog manager, increased the resolution to the final
dimensions of 512 by 342 pixels, allowing the Mac to display 80 columns
of xed-pitch (monospaced) text.
With the increased resolution of the bitmapped display, more memory
was needed. Like Raskin before him, Jobs thought that 64K of memory was
acceptable, but the team convinced ...