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> Despite Chen’s characteristic confident tone, he doesn’t at all acknowledge the influence of the limited palettes of baseline graphics adapters on the pre-Win95 “flat” origins of that cycle.

It's right in the second sentence: "...Windows 1.0, which looked very flat because... color depth was practically non-existent."



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