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From: jalkio@cc.helsinki.fi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Color palette correction (NeXT)
Message-ID: <1991Apr19.003352.6042@cc.helsinki.fi>
Date: 19 Apr 91 00:33:52 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki
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Well, I (maybe incorrectly) stated a while ago that the NeXTstation
Color might have a color palette of 16 milloin colors. The reason for
this was a posting in comp.sys.next which explained that while the
machine has only 16 bits for every pixel on screen, it _internally_ has
8 bits for every base color (R, G, B). I understood that it in a way has
a palette of 16M but you can't directly access them. The system
automatically chooses the best shades for each situation from this palette.

Go figure. 

Perhaps saying that the Color station has a palette of 16M is a bit too
much and saying that it only has a palette of 4096 is a bit too
low... The thruth lies somewhere in between.

:-)

			Jouni