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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: colors
Message-ID: <1991Jan2.192430.18011@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 2 Jan 91 19:24:30 GMT
References: <6649@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, San Jose, CA.
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In article <6649@crash.cts.com> bill@pro-gateway.cts.com (Bill Long, SysOp) writes:
>How many colors can the MultiSync 5D display at one time, and how many total
>colors are available?
>

Basically, with analog monitors such as this, the number of colors the montor
itself can display is infinite for all practical purposes. Since the three
color guns are driven by analog signals, the number of colors depends on how
fine the resolution from the card can be.

The limitation will be from the graphics cards. simple VGA and SVGA can do from
16 to 256 colors simultaneously (depending on card and mode), out of a palatte
of 262144.

Many advanced graphics workstations can do 256 colors out of a palatte of 4
million, and others can do considerably more.

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