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From: msp33327@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael S. Pereckas)
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Subject: Re: Resolution, etc.
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Date: 16 Nov 90 19:02:48 GMT
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In <2928@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes:


>  I'm not convinced that you need 24 bits of color for the memory,
>either. Systems like the VGA which have a large palette and a limited
>number of selections work very well. If you look at the output of a 24
>bit color scanner scanning quality photographs, you rarely find an image
>which doesn't map into 256 colors nicely. Very rarely.


Note that this gets to be a mess in a hurry if you want to put two
different images on the screen at once (perhaps in separate windows).
Pallets can be a problem in multitasking, windowing environments.

You're right though---super VGA images (640x400 -- 800x600 pixels in
256 colors) look great.


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