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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: visual depth vs. colormap_size
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Date: 2 Apr 89 19:03:43 GMT
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    In every case I've seen, which isn't many, colormap_size == 1<<depth.

The Digital QDSS, for example, can have depth 8 but colormap_size 254 because
two colormap entries are usurped for the cursor.  The sample Sun implementation
ought to be (but isn't) this way as well, to reasonably support the software
cursor.