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From: benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: Suns, support, less money
Message-ID: <1433@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 18-Sep-87 02:52:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: ssc-vax.1433
Posted: Fri Sep 18 02:52:33 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 19-Sep-87 16:26:42 EDT
References: <7177@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> <3894@well.UUCP> <668@uokmax.UUCP> <719@sugar.UUCP>
Organization: Boeing Aerospace Corp., Seattle WA
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Keywords: Workstations

In article <719@sugar.UUCP>, peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
> In article <1417@ssc-vax.UUCP>, benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel) writes:
> >                SUN            APOLLO      DEC       IBM             APPLE
> >                ---            ------      ----      ---             -----
> >  Model        3/60 (Mono)     DN3000L     2000      PS 80-071       Mac II
> ...
> >  Bitplanes      8               4          ?         ?                4
> The Mac II supports 256 colors simultaneously. That seems awfully like 8
> bit planes to me.

Excuse my vagueness.  The Mac II supports 256 colors simultaneously. Yes!
But you have to buy an additional 4 bitplanes to bring it up to 8.
Apollo it should also be mentioned can be broughtup  to 8 bitplanes...but
comes with 4.