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Nina Kalinina
@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

"It's called BIT map, not BYTE map"

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Elosha
@elosha@chaos.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 12 hours ago

@nina_kali_nina Coming from #Windows and its Bitmaps (*.bmp) in the 1990s, I wondered why on #Linux the X Bitmaps (*.xbm) always were b&w only. Until I thought a second about it and noticed colourful images needed more than a bit choice, thus were called Pixmaps (*.xpm) instead 😏

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