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From: rjc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
Message-ID: <1991Jun10.142051.25271@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 10 Jun 91 14:20:51 GMT
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In article <49@ryptyde.UUCP> dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy) writes:
>Responding to the following:
>
>Please. 1)  The above says nothing about pixel-depth limits. 2)  There are
>Macintosh programs that support 64-bit color, but it's a farc anyway. Why?
>The human eye cannot even discern between 16 million colors, so what's the 
>point?!

 Well if you didn't know, the bits over bit 24 are generally used
for Alpha channel, Z buffering, overlay (playfields), control
and shading information.

There are some prototype workstations thathave over 100bits per pixel.


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