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From: leeg@mcrware.UUCP (Lee Glen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Frame Buffers
Message-ID: <1368@mcrware.UUCP>
Date: 5 Oct 89 15:39:36 GMT
References: <438@crash.cts.com> <10853@dasys1.UUCP>
Reply-To: leeg@mcrware.UUCP (Lee Glenn)
Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Iowa
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In article <10853@dasys1.UUCP> sterling@dasys1.UUCP (Sterling Brown) writes:
>When I was at the World of
>Commodore last month one of Commodore's reps said they will be going with
>24 bits of color.  This will give it 4 billion colors on the screen at one
>time.
>						sterling@dasys1
>  


Gee, I thought 2^24 was equal to 16,777,216.

It my understanding that the board will be a 8 bit/pixel with a 256 color
lookup table.  Each color having 24 bits of color information.  This would
give 256 colors on the screen at one time out of a palette of 16,777,216.

Am I all wet?

Lee Glenn