Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!cornell!mailrus!ukma!sean From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXT Message-ID: <10384@s.ms.uky.edu> Date: 17 Oct 88 21:10:01 GMT References: <4431@polya.Stanford.EDU> <24807@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Reply-To: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) Organization: The Leaning Tower of Patterson Office @ The Univ. of KY Lines: 18 In article <24807@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) writes: >It turns out that once you've generalized to any N (where N>1) bits >per pixel, it's much easier to generalize to any other N (including >1). > >So the 2-bit screen is not only much more beautiful (snazzy >antialiasing) but is an architectural exercise and a proof-of-concept >that the machine can someday be extended to more bits per pixel with >no great agony in the display software. And what is color if not bit planes? Heh heh heh. Sean -- *** Sean Casey sean@ms.uky.edu, sean@ukma.bitnet *** The Hacker from Hell. {backbone|rutgers|uunet}!ukma!sean *** U of K, Lexington Kentucky, USA ..where christian movies are censored. *** ``The World... she's a flat! She's a round! Flat! Round! Flat! Round!''