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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: So, does *anyone* make 1024x768 x256 for the A3000?
Message-ID: <20952@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 25 Apr 91 16:18:56 GMT
References: <1991Apr24.043853.20723@coplex.uucp> <15230@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1991Apr24.162452.22106@hubcap.clemson.edu> <15250@helios.TAMU.EDU>
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In article <15250@helios.TAMU.EDU> n298ad@tamuts.tamu.edu (John Jordan) writes:
>Yes, 24 bitplanes, SO???

Seems to me the confusion is over the word "bitplanes".  These cards provide
24 bits/pixel.  Since a TI 34020 is a packed-pixel based machine, the actual
storage is in terms of packed pixels.  Were it based on the National 
Semiconductor DP8500 chip set instead, an equivalent board would indeed have
24 bit planes (and a blitter for each plane as well, but that's a separate
issue).
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