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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
Message-Id: <4342.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1991 12:19:17 GMT
References: <5092@orbit.cts.com> <35@ryptyde.UUCP> <17261@chopin.udel.edu> <49@ryptyde.UUCP>
Organization: TAP, NZAmigaUG.

Quoted from <49@ryptyde.UUCP> by dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy):

> 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?!

    a.  The human eye cannot even discern between 16 million colors _at
        this time_.

    b.  People do manipulations with the extra depth. Isn't that one
        reason why you talk about 32-bit instead of 24-bit?
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*** John Bickers, TAP, NZAmigaUG.        jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz ***
***         "Endless variations, make it all seem new" - Devo.          ***