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From: rob@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Robert K Shull)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: 8-24:  Truth in Advertising?
Message-ID: <1990Oct30.150045.22186@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 30 Oct 90 15:00:45 GMT
References: <15590007@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com>
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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In article <15590007@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> kmarko@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Kurt Marko) writes:
>we finally got the first one late last week, and either I (and
>my authorized Apple dealer) read between the lines of Apple's
>original announcements on this card, or Apple has not been
>entirely truthful regarding the card's capabilities.

I think you read around the lines, actually. I remember from the product
rollout, and from the spec sheets, that 24-bit color on a large monitor
was NOT one of the supported configurations. The announcement listed all
of the Apple monitors, and what bit-depth was supported for each one,
along with a note that large color monitors were supported in 8-bit mode
only.
Somewhere, they stated that extra video memory was used for storing
off-screen bitmaps.
I can't remember the exact quote, and the spec sheet is long gone, but that
was the basic idea.
	Robert
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Robert K. Shull
rob@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu				chinet!uokmax!rob