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From: jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: what I want to see in future Apple computers
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.135838.3444@potomac.ads.com>
Date: 18 Jun 91 13:58:38 GMT
References: <1991Jun17.145312.20601@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991Jun17.183500.10303@eng.umd.edu> <31504@hydra.gatech.EDU>
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>Except, of course, on the colour NeXT's introduced, oh, 4-6 months
>ago.  16-bit colour in the base model (which, as I recall, is some-
>what more expenive than the Mac IIsi).  You might want to keep up 
>on whats going on outside the Mac arena once in a while, especially
>if you're going to be posting to the net.

Worse... the NeXT color doesn't have a color lookup table!  That means
any animation on the machine has to be painstakingly drawn.  No
animation tricks by modifying color lookup table slots.

I can't imagine anyone doing color without a CLUT.  Its just too
useful.