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From: barrett@iastate.edu (Barrett Marc N)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: CDTV News
Message-ID: <1991Jun30.205817.4347@news.iastate.edu>
Date: 30 Jun 91 20:58:17 GMT
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In article <13636@uwm.edu> gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu writes:
>Okay.  Now you can hold on.  Who the hell ever said they were
>COMFORTABLE????  I'd love 8bit graphics.  I don't want a 24bit graphic
>chipset.  It's a bad idea.  That's for graphic boards to handle, and
>for DIG to deal with, IMHO.  What is needed now is an 8bit graphic
>chipset to compare directly with VGA.  Argh.
>
   One more thought... it would be very typical for Commodore to finally
adopt 8-bit color, right when 8-bit color is obsolete.  Face it, 8-bit
color is fast becoming obsolete, and all companies are moving past 8-bit
to higher color capabilities.  CD-I is 24-bit, Apple has 24-bit video
cards for the MAC and one system with 15-bit color practically built-in
(on the LC, all the hardware for 15-bit color is there, except for the
memory).  VGA is also moving past 8-bit color, as the new VEGA standard
supports 15-bit color.  

   Yesterday's technology, ad infinitum...

>Socrates:  "I drank WHAT????"
>LMFAP:  "Next time you see me, it won't be me."
>Wubba:  "A dream is nothing more than a wish dipped in chocolate and sprinkled
>with a little imagination." (From my poem, "A Dream")			-Wubba


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