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From: bmarsh@cod.NOSC.MIL (William C. Marsh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: XGA video standard
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Date: 24 Sep 90 21:05:15 GMT
References: <3015@aecom.yu.edu> <1990Sep22.023059.13976@amd.com>
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In article <1990Sep22.023059.13976@amd.com> phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
>|RAM configuration, how many colors it supports on-screen at 1024
>
>According to PC Week, 32,000 colors. They also said it's 16-bit
>color. I don't really understand this.

I don't know about the XGA directly, the Targa-16 uses a 16 bit pixel, with
5 bits for red, green, and blue (and one extra bit, Targa uses for overlay).
(15 bits = 32768 colors, but then you probably already knew that! ;-)  I'm
sure they are doing something similar.

Bill
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