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From: andy@research.canon.oz.au (Andy Newman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: visual classes
Keywords: TrueColor, StaticColor
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Date: 30 Jun 91 00:31:19 GMT
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In article <1991Jun28.202530.15560@eng.umd.edu> stripes@eng.umd.edu (Joshua Osborne) writes:
>TrueColor is only really going to be on 24bit deep displays (other displays
>offen emulate them); how common do you think they will be?

And a 24 bit display with colour maps in its RAMDACs (like most displays
that use Brooktree RAMDACS) can do DirectColor.
-- 
Andy Newman (andy@research.canon.oz.au)
" Well you can't have everything. Where would you put it? " - Steven Wright