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From: rcj2@cbnewsd.att.com (ray.c.jender)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Mac can emulate amiga&has over 1,000,000 colors
Message-ID: <1991Apr1.201739.3598@cbnewsd.att.com>
Date: 1 Apr 91 20:17:39 GMT
References: <49174@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <1991Apr1.185501.6295@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
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In article <1991Apr1.185501.6295@ccu.umanitoba.ca> umstobb1@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Colin Stobbe) writes:
>In article <49174@nigel.ee.udel.edu> "PETER C. FREY" <PFREY%drew.bitnet@pucc.princeton.edu> writes:
>>HOWEVER,
>>   This ignorant fellow, ruffled as he was, insisted many times that a
>>certain, top of the line, newly released mac had over 1,000,000 colors,
>
>Hello,
>     From what I remember from "Computer Graphics World" magazine, Mac users
>can buy 32 bit graphics cards (don't ask me how many colours that is, but
>it's a lot  2^32).  These, obviously, cost just tons of money, and are strictly
>for graphics professionals.
>
>          Colin Stobbe


	I don't believe there is any graphic color standard greater
	then 2^24...the rest of the bits are used for other things
	like overlay or underlay...