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Article #3575Re: XGA video standard
From: Wm E. Davidsen Jr
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 1990 00:24
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 1990 00:24
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In article <35010020@hpfinote.HP.COM> pnl@hpfinote.HP.COM (Peter Lim) writes:
| I guess 32,000 is rounding off of 32,768 which is 15-bit. What is
| the other bit for ??
Sounds like 5 bits each for the RGB gun intensities, like the pallette
of the VGA has 6 bits for each color, but you can only have 256 total on
the VGA.
Note that if my surmise is correct the max number of grey levels will
only be 32, as opposed to 64 for the VGA.
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bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: XGA video standard Message-ID: <1983@sixhub.UUCP> Date: 1 Oct 90 00:24:41 GMT References: <3015@aecom.yu.edu> <35010020@hpfinote.HP.COM> Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY Lines: 16