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From: childs@cadnetix.UUCP.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Color questions: color systems, "black bodies", EGB palette
Message-ID: <641@cadnetix.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 5-Jun-87 10:50:50 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  5 10:50:50 1987
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Summary: 3 Color Advertising Hype ???

In article <725@bsu-cs.UUCP>, dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>In article <1937@druhi.ATT.COM> neal@druhi.ATT.COM (Neal D. McBurnett) writes:
>>5) As I understand it, the color palatte of the IBM CGA standard is really
>>	limited to 8 colors with 2 intensities of each.

>This business of 8 colors, or 64 colors, or 4096 colors, is advertising hype.
>The rest is all a question of INTENSITY.
>Remember, THREE colors, and a large number (or 16, or 64, or 4096) of
>INTENSITIES.
>Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  {ihnp4,seismo}!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi

Just what I want Red, Green, Blue; dark Red, dark Green, dark Blue;
light Red, light Green, light Blue; etc...

Don't you really mean THREE colors, each at its own intensity?

The IBM gives you eight different colors, plus a darker or lighter version
of the eight, depending on how you look at it.

David Childs - Cadnetix Corp.  childs@cadnetix.UUCP

Disclaimer - I in no way speak for Cadnetix since Cadnetix machines have
only eight colors.  (All at the same intensity.  Except black.)