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From: wine@maui.cs.ucla.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: more than 16 levels of grey on a 5081 (megapel) using Xwindows
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Date: 7 Apr 89 20:03:43 GMT
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We'd like to use our 5081 as a display device for images using Xwindows,
but we can only get 16 levels of grey out of it.  Is there any way
to get 256 levels of grey (hardware, and/or software)?  It's an awfully
nice display, but we may have to get something else to do the job.

--David Wine
University of California at Los Angeles                        wine@cs.ucla.edu
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