Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!think!husc6!spdcc!xylogics!world!madd
From: madd@world.std.com (jim frost)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: x-window on pc
Keywords: x-window, pc
Message-ID: <1989Nov21.192353.3805@world.std.com>
Date: 21 Nov 89 19:23:53 GMT
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chasm@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Charles Marslett) writes:
>> >On the other hand, I have tried several times to discuss what I have to do
>> >to support X11 in 8-plane mode,
>> 
>> You shouldn't have to do anything special; you'll just have a pallette
>> of 256 colors to work with instead of 16 unless you're doing something
>> like colormap-based double-buffering.

>No . . ., try looking at the way the video memory is organized in the VGA 16-
>color modes, and how it is organized in the 256-color modes.

I thought he was asking about client-side, not server side.  If this
is not the case, I apologize.

jim frost
madd@std.com