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From: kevinc@cs.athabascau.ca (Kevin Crocker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: XGA video standard
Message-ID: <339@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
Date: 5 Oct 90 17:53:36 GMT
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In article <245@srchtec.UUCP> mra@srchtec.UUCP (Michael Almond) writes:
>>> According to PC Week, 32,000 colors. They also said it's 16-bit
>>> color. I don't really understand this.

O.K. I guess I really don't understand what it is that we're talking
about either.  Are we saying that the monitor will be capable of
displaying ~32,000 hues simultaneously or that there will be the
capability of displaying 256 hues out of a pallette of ~32,000?  This
makes no sense as we already have 256 out of a pallette of 256K?

If we are talking about ~32000 hues on screen then is there any
evidence to show that the human eye can discern this level of sublety?

Kevin
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