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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
Message-ID: <1991Jun9.183938.3764@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 9 Jun 91 18:39:38 GMT
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don@chopin.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd) writes:

>In article <35@ryptyde.UUCP> dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy) writes:
>>You obviously aren't familiar with the Macintosh graphics device. Macintosh
>>video is much more programmable than the Amiga's will ever be, for very good
>>reasons. There IS no "standard" dpi. No video "standards", or modes, are
>>needed in the Macintosh community.  Any monitor can be of any resolution,
>>any number of pixels, independant of size, and the Macintosh will recognize
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>	  Quickdraw supports 32-bit color, max.  Many of the higher-end graphics
>systems are now doing 64-bit or more.

    Well, theoretically, QuickDraw handles 48-bit colour.  All colours on 
the Mac are specified as 3 16-bit values for R, G and B.  Are those high-end
graphics systems actually using 64-bits for colour, or are you including
the bits used for 3-D things like z-buffers?  
  QuickDraw is still 2D, and doesn't make any pretense at being 3-D, where
you have a need for z-buffers.

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