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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Color palette correction (NeXT)
Message-ID: <1991Apr22.064955.10173@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 22 Apr 91 06:49:55 GMT
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rjc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:

>  Well excuse me Mr. Mac, but I was talking about the standard 8bit
>color card Apple puts in Color Macs. 

  The on-board graphics on the IIsi and IIci is an 8 bit implementation.
The LC is 16 bit.  These graphics modes are built into the motherboard, and
don't use a card at all.  The cards which Apple does sell, as Marc mentioned,
are all either 24 bit already, or can be upgraded to 24 bit from 8 bit by
just adding VRAMs.

>A lot of people refer to these
>as 24bit because they have a 16M color palette. 

  Actually I've never heard anyone refer to the 8 bit graphics as 24 bit
graphics.  People mention a 16 million colour PALETTE, but they always say
8 bit graphics [i.e. only 256 of those 16 million on screen at one time].
At least, this is my experience from reading MacWorld, MacUser etc...



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