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From: elee24@castle.ed.ac.uk (H Bruce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: VGA Card
Keywords: VGA
Message-ID: <3857@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 9 May 90 10:41:13 GMT
Reply-To: elee24@castle.ed.ac.uk (H Bruce)
Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Organization: Dept. Electrical Engineering, Edinburgh University, Scotland
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The VGA standard only supports 6 bit control of the red, green and blue
intensities in the 256 colors/pixel mode. This means that only 64 greyscales
are available. 

Does anyone know of any otherwise VGA compatible cards that support
8 bit control of red, green and blue intensity thus providing the more
standard (and useful) 256 greyscales as found on workstatations
(ie SUN, Apollo etc).

Henry Bruce