more than 16 levels of grey on a 5081 (megapel) using Xwindows

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From: wine
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 1989 20:03

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We'd like to use our 5081 as a display device for images using Xwindows,
but we can only get 16 levels of grey out of it.  Is there any way
to get 256 levels of grey (hardware, and/or software)?  It's an awfully
nice display, but we may have to get something else to do the job.

--David Wine
University of California at Los Angeles                        wine@cs.ucla.edu
Computer Science Department                                      (213) 825-6121
3531 Boelter Hall           ...!(uunet,rutgers,ucbvax,randvax)!cs.ucla.edu!wine
Los Angeles, CA  90024

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