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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: 24-bit color
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Date: 5 Dec 90 19:41:11 GMT
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In article <6110@crash.cts.com> bill@pro-gateway.cts.com (Bill Long, SysOp) writes:
>I'm an Apple II user and try to somewhat keep up with the Mac world, and I
>have a couple of questions about 24-bit graphics.
>
>1) Why is 24-bit better than 32-bit?

It isn't. 32-bit graphics means one of two things:  24-bit graphics with 8
bytes of padding, or 24-bits of RGB, plus 8 bits used as something else (
transparancy, etc)

>2) How many of the 16 million colors can be on-screen at once?
Using an Apple 8*24 or 8*24GC: 307,200  (one for each pixel of the screen)
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