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In article <90006.120601JKT100@PSUVM.BITNET>,
 Kurt Tappe  psuvm!jkt100@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu  writes:

>In article <678@alias.UUCP>, rhardock@alias.UUCP (Ron Hardock) writes:

>> - Mac II      (provides 16 million simultaneous colors).

>Whoa there.  Yes, the Mac II has a 16 million color palette, but the
>output only handles 256 colors simultaneously, not all 16 million.
                    ^^^

You're dead wrong on this one.  The Mac II series does provide for 16.7
million colors.  Whether you get it or not depends on the video display
board installed on the Nubus.  In front of me is an ad from Radius for
their DirectColor/24 which can simultaneously access every one of the Mac's
16.7 million colors.  They also make a 16-bit board (32,768 colors simul-
taneously) and 8-bit board.

>Yes, you may be able to expand this capability, but it will cost you
>a LOT.  Heck, the basic Mac II will cost you a lot too, so you may
>not have the $$ available to expand to the kind of colors you want.
>
>                     Kurt     --

What do you expect to pay for such capabilities?  Peanuts?  But, seriously,
there is so much competition among third party suppliers that the prices
for these boards are bound to come down significantly.

These boards are not expansions, but rather alternatives to Apple's color
display.  They do not need an Apple video display board to work, but the
nice thing is that they could work together.  Mac OS provides for that.

Regards,
Marcelino Bernardo
mbernar@erenj.bitnet