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From: shap@sfsup.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac II
Message-ID: <1172@sfsup.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Mar-87 01:47:37 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  9 01:47:37 1987
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Summary: mac has 8 bit planes.

In article <4354@utah-cs.UUCP>, t-jacobs@utah-cs.UUCP writes:
> 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.

You have that garbled. The color monitor, according to the Apple specs, is
analog. The deal is that you have up to 8 bit planes which are used to do
table lookup into a 24 bit (8 per color) pallete which has 256 entries.

It should be no problem to get the kind of color resolution that you want.

Jon Shapiro