Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!linus!agate!ucbvax!ucdavis!csusac!sactoh0!pacengr!americ!erk From: erk@americ.UUCP (Erick Parsons) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Mac can emulate amiga&has over 1,000,000 colors Message-ID: Date: 3 Apr 91 12:15:16 GMT References: <49174@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <1991Apr1.185501.6295@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Lines: 21 >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" 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 That's 4.3 Billion colors. If you ask me it's a waste of money. Consider that the Human eye can only percieve ~7 Million colors at the peak of health. That's a 613 X overkill. All hype. ;) -- Erick Parsons, Sacramento erick@sactoh0.sac.ca.us <-- Right off the freeway -- {ames att sun }!pacbell!sactoh0!pacengr!americ!erk <-- At the end of the road --