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From: rcopm@yabbie.rmit.oz (Paul Menon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Re: Mac II
Message-ID: <422@yabbie.rmit.oz>
Date: Thu, 5-Mar-87 17:27:46 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  5 17:27:46 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 8-Mar-87 00:50:12 EST
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Organization: RMIT Comm & Elec Eng, Melbourne, Australia.
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> Summary: Color capability (24 bits!)
> 
> In article <1338@husc6.UUCP>, hadeishi@husc7.HARVARD.EDU (Mitsuharu Hadeishi) writes:
>>> Re: Mac having 15- versus 8- bit color 
> 
> During the Technical conference on Compuserve monday night,  I believe
> I heard them say that the new color QuickDraw has 24 bit capability.  They
> weren't sure if it was fully supported in the first release or not.
> The color monitor they are comming out with only has 8 bit color capability.
    
    I am a bit cornfused as well.  The original QuickDraw had software support
for 32 bit planes.  Now the new Mac, Namely Mac II, ie the one which will not 
only support colour in software [ oops, *color* for you guys :-) ] but be able
to show it as well , has, according to various RUMOURS, 16, 8, 24 and 
who-knows-what other powers of two or 68k address limits.  I myself thought 
32 bit planes were too much to hope for (memory!), but would have been ideal.

    Can someone please set the record straight?  The needle is wearing out.
			(Anyone in AppleLand??)

Paul Menon.

    Dept of Communication & Electronic Engineering,
    Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,
    124 Latrobe St, Melbourne, 3000, Australia
 
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