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Subject: Re: CRT technology?
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Date: Sun, 18-Jan-87 19:16:23 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 18 19:16:23 1987
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From: jon@oddhack.Caltech.Edu (Jon Leech)
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In article <54@eps2.UUCP> jon@eps2.UUCP (Jon Hue) writes:
>
>I'm not one, but my office is right next to someone who is.  I would say
>that with current off-the-shelf parts the state of the art frame buffer
>would be 1600 x 1280 x 24 bits.  We figured that if you built a 1280 x
>1024 x 24 bit frame buffer, you needed LUTs with 7ns access times.
>...
>I imagine that we'll see some high-resolution (1600 x 1280, 1280 x 1024)
>full color (24 bits) systems for electronic prepress in the near future.

	We just got some HP 98720/21 graphics boxes, which are 
1280 h x 1024 v x 24 bits. I don't know how expensive they are (it's part 
of an HP grant program), but they are available now. One of the amusing 
features is the ability to switch between two sets of color maps every 
133 ms.

    -- Jon Leech (jon@csvax.caltech.edu || ...seismo!cit-vax!jon)
    Caltech Computer Science Graphics Group
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