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From: dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Visuals
Message-ID: <464@boing.UUCP>
Date: 29 Oct 88 03:53:13 GMT
References: <1988Oct27.064934.14546@cs.rochester.edu> <19881028154402.4.RWS@KILLINGTON.LCS.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck)
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In article RWS@ZERMATT.LCS.MIT.EDU (Robert Scheifler) writes:
>workstations) you'll get 4, 8, 12, and 24 bit visuals.  You're pretty
>unlikely to get a 3-bit visual.
>

Except of course if the underlieing hardware is bitplane oriented as
opposed to chunky pixels and the display subsystem is flexible enough
to specify the number of bitplanes you want  to be squirted at the
screen. I know of atleast one architecture that meets those specs. ;-)

-- 
Dale Luck     Boing, Inc. {uunet!cbmvax|pyramid}|!amiga!boing!dale
Although I do contract work for Amiga-LosGatos, my opinions probably
don't represent those of Commodore or its management or its engineers,
but I think the world would be a better place if they did.