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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
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Subject: Re: color NeXTstation
Keywords: color NeXTstation 16 bit
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Date: 24 Sep 90 20:20:57 GMT
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In article <34@brazos.cs.utexas.edu> garnett@cs.utexas.edu (John William Garnett) writes:
>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 ?)

and 4 bits for alpha (transparency)
This is 2^12 colors, i.e. 4096.

Ronald
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