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From: madler@piglet.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
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Subject: Re: color NeXTstation (and Weight of Monitor!)
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wiml@milton.u.washington.edu (William Lewis) conjectures:

>> Well, my understanding is that there are only 4 bits per gun. Dithered,
>> no doubt. This seems sort of restrictive until you think about the
>> trouble you'd have coordinating color palettes across umpteen different
>> color windows, each with possibly completely non-overlapping palettes,
(etc.)

I'd lay fairly good odds you are correct, and that a color map would have
been too much the headache in NeXTStep, but I would point out for general
edification that a color palette chip was announced about a month ago that
had several palettes for separate windows and switched among them on the
fly as the windows were scanned.  Of course, the next question is "How many
windows?", and as I recall, not terribly many.  Still the possibility looms
in future technology.

Mark Adler
madler@piglet.caltech.edu