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From: jsw@xhead.esd.sgi.com (Jeff Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: 24 bit X11 servers.
Message-ID: <1990Nov30.193452.26814@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 30 Nov 90 19:34:52 GMT
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Reply-To: jsw@xhead.esd.sgi.com (Jeff Weinstein)
Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc.
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  The current SGI X servers do not support 24 bit visuals.  They will
be supported in some future version of IRIX.  We have it working in the
lab.  No, you can't have a copy now.  Stay tuned here for more info on
where we are going with X.

	--Jeff

Jeff Weinstein - X Protocol Police
Silicon Graphics, Inc., Entry Systems Division, Window Systems
jsw@xhead.esd.sgi.com
Any opinions expressed above are mine, not sgi's.