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From: chrisg@microsoft.UUCP (Chris GUZAK)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: 1024x768 resolution in 32,000 colors?
Message-ID: <70466@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 5 Feb 91 01:06:51 GMT
References: <665558004@macbeth.cs.duke.edu>
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In article <665558004@macbeth.cs.duke.edu> mds@duke.cs.duke.edu (Mark David Shattuck) writes:
>comment on this card.  Could it be based on the new Edsun CEG/DAC
>chip set?  

NO.  CEG is just a hack for 8 bit frame buffers.  The point is
it tries to give you more than 256 colors with only 8 bits.
It does NOT work transparently to apps.

16 bit (or greater) displays are far prefered!  I hope this
is as good as it sounds.

>mark shattuck (mds@physics.phy.duke.edu)