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From: kensy@microsoft.UUCP (Ken Sykes)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: 256 colours under Microsoft Windows
Keywords: images
Message-ID: <7652@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 9 Sep 89 16:19:15 GMT
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Reply-To: kensy@microsoft.UUCP (Ken Sykes)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <2697@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM> rogerson@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM (Dale Rogerson) writes:
>	I have heard that VGA cards will not display 256 colors of grey due
>	to the way the bits were divided between red, green, and blue. Anyone
>	know?
>
>	"Dreaming of 386 v3.0 at 1024x768 with 256 out of 256k for only 1k."
>	-----Dale
>		Rogerson-----
VGAs use 6-bit DACs, so only 64 gray scale levels are available.  This
is also the reason you have 256K colors instead of full color.

--Ken Sykes

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