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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: GIF viewers are inconsistent
Message-ID: <4754@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 25 Jun 89 14:07:01 GMT
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Organization: Xenix Support
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In article <26915@beta.lanl.gov>, pt@beta.lanl.gov (Paul A. Thiessen) writes:
> Just a note: GIF can only have 256 colors *on screen*, from a choice of
> about 16 million (256**3). I don't know if that's what you meant,

It's what I meant. I routinely use images with up to 4096 unique colors on
screen at one time. This is on a $1000 micro. Apparently GIF can't support
that.
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Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.

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