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From: garnett@cs.utexas.edu (John William Garnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: color NeXTstation
Summary: nature of "16-bit color"
Keywords: color NeXTstation 16 bit
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Date: 21 Sep 90 16:20:25 GMT
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Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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I've heard that the color system for the color NeXTstation is
16-bit color.  Would anyone care to expound upon this?  Is the
16-bit color divided into 4 Red bits, 4 Green bits, and 4 Blue
bits (and 4 bits for ?) or does the 16-bits refer to the size of
the lookup table (i.e. 2^16 colors selectable from a palette of ?)?

Thanks.
-- 
John Garnett
                              University of Texas at Austin
garnett@cs.utexas.edu         Department of Computer Science
                              Austin, Texas