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From: tws@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Thomas Sarver)
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Subject: Re: Suggestion for New Graphics Chips
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Date: 2 Jul 88 08:41:49 GMT
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In article <3150@crash.cts.com> gregb15@pro-charlotte.cts.com (Greg Beckham) writes:
>
> I have a suggestion for the new graphics chip (really obese agnus?)... To
>have a graphics mode with 256 colors on screen from a pallette of 4096.
>Interlace or Non-Interlace. Nuff' Said.
>
>             Greg Beckham
> 

Make that a pallette of 16 million.  Its only 24-bit pallette registers.  I
agree that 8 bit planes are a minimum for the 1990's.

Gotta keep up with the Mac II, even if were already superior from the inside
out.

BTW, how about the setup the Mac II uses, have one card do multi-modes and just
add memory when you want more bit-planes. Economical, let the consumer decide
how much power he/she wants.


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