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From: awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels)
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Subject: Re: Color palette correction (NeXT)
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Date: 22 Apr 91 16:22:16 GMT
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In article <1991Apr21.181052.12234@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> 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. A lot of people refer to these
>as 24bit because they have a 16M color palette. Now for the gotcha,
>go read comp.sys.mac.system and watch people talk about how slow
>their Macs become in 24bit mode.

Only idiots and sleazy marketers refer to those cards as 24 bit.  I haven't
seen an ad labeling those cards as 24 bit in years, and I don't know anyone
with a color monitor who calls their 8 bit card a 24 bit color setup.  You'd
have to be a real dope to do that, because when you change the bit depth in
the control panel, it SAYS explicitly the number of colors being displayed.
(Well OK, in 24 bit mode it just says millions rather than 16.7 million.)

Yeah, 24 bit unaccelerated is kind of slow.  On the other hand, it takes about
a half-second to switch bit depths, so it isn't that much of a problem, and if
you are doing 24 bit graphics, you probably need an accelerator anyway.