PALETTE: why does it take "BGR" colour instead of "RGB"?

[CharlieJV]

Now there's a topic I'd like to see in Word For Day!

I went from 16 color to RGB missing a whole decade or so of Palette. Now of course you don't need but the history of Palette would be interesting.

And my question because looking at a bunch of old QBasic code lately, I'm running into a bunch of samples that use SCREEN 13 and use a lot of PALETTE.

Of course, I looked up PALETTE at the QB64pe Wiki and thought: huh, would you look at that.