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Article #14949Re: Mac II
From: shap
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 1987 06:47
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 1987 06:47
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In article <4354@utah-cs.UUCP>, t-jacobs@utah-cs.UUCP writes: > In article <1338@husc6.UUCP>, hadeishi@husc7.HARVARD.EDU (Mitsuharu Hadeishi) writes: > >> Re: Mac having 15- versus 8- bit color > > During the Technical conference on Compuserve monday night, I believe > I heard them say that the new color QuickDraw has 24 bit capability. They > weren't sure if it was fully supported in the first release or not. > The color monitor they are comming out with only has 8 bit color capability. You have that garbled. The color monitor, according to the Apple specs, is analog. The deal is that you have up to 8 bit planes which are used to do table lookup into a 24 bit (8 per color) pallete which has 256 entries. It should be no problem to get the kind of color resolution that you want. Jon Shapiro
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ut-sally!im4u!rutgers!princeton!allegra!ulysses!sfmag!sfsup!shap From: shap@sfsup.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Mac II Message-ID: <1172@sfsup.UUCP> Date: Mon, 9-Mar-87 01:47:37 EST Article-I.D.: sfsup.1172 Posted: Mon Mar 9 01:47:37 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 10-Mar-87 07:29:07 EST References: <10231@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> <1338@husc6.UUCP> <4354@utah-cs.UUCP> Organization: AT&T-IS, Summit N.J. USA Lines: 16 Summary: mac has 8 bit planes.