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From: mra@srchtec.UUCP (Michael Almond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: XGA video standard
Keywords: XGA Video
Message-ID: <228@srchtec.UUCP>
Date: 25 Sep 90 13:31:41 GMT
References: <3015@aecom.yu.edu> <1990Sep22.023059.13976@amd.com> <2270@cod.NOSC.MIL>
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In article <2270@cod.NOSC.MIL> bmarsh@cod.nosc.mil.UUCP (William C. Marsh) writes:
>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.
>

	I also saw the article in PC Week.  Does anyone know if/when any
manufactures will have boards/monitors available?  (I'm in the process of
putting a PC together and was going to by a NEC 4D).

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