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From: mark@calvin..westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Color palette correction (NeXT)
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Date: 25 Apr 91 14:07:34 GMT
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In article <1991Apr22.064955.10173@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes:
>rjc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:
>>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...

Nor in my experience as a graphics hardware designer. 8bit is 8bit no matter
what fancy pallete tricks are played.
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