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From: thomson@cs.utah.edu (Rich Thomson)
Subject: 24-bit color support (was Re: what's important for R5?)
Date: 4 Jul 90 15:44:15 MDT
Message-ID: <1990Jul4.154416.5842@hellgate.utah.edu>
References: <1336@pai.UUCP>

In article <1336@pai.UUCP> erc@pai.UUCP (Eric Johnson) writes:
>14) 24-bit colour support. (Another frequently-asked question.)

The X server on an ESV (Evans & Sutherland) workstation already supports 24
bit color.  As far as I know, this is just the "TrueColor" visual type.
Doesn't the SI already support this?  Or are you asking for some other kind
of 24-bit support (like dithering for visuals that don't support 24 bits).
I'm not quite sure how I would feel about X supporting generic n->m bitplane
color conversion.

						-- Rich
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