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From: chow@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac II and VGA  (icky-poo, IBM stuff)
Keywords: Zenith FTM Mac II Board RasterOps
Message-ID: <7848@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 28 Apr 89 22:11:15 GMT
References: <1531@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> <8264@chinet.chi.il.us> <492@biar.UUCP> <1783@ccnysci.UUCP>
Reply-To: chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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In article <1783@ccnysci.UUCP> alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen) writes:
.In article <492@biar.UUCP. trebor@biar.UUCP (Robert J Woodhead) writes:
..In article <8264@chinet.chi.il.us. henry@chinet.chi.il.us (Henry C. Schmitt) writes:
.
..IMHO the 2 and 4 bit Color Quickdraw modes were a waste of time.
.
What I'd always wanted to know was why Apple didn't support a 3-bit mode on
their video card.  Why might one want a 3-bit graphics mode?  Well, 3-bits
would be suffcient to render the colors found in the [non color] quickdraw
programs and it should be faster than 4-bit mode since there's less bits to
move around.

.
.What about the huge number of people who bought 4-bit Apple boards? I
.often see people using 4-bit color. If they couldn't they would be
.very very unhappy.
.

Interesting.  Although I agree with you that the 4-bit mode should be
supported (if not for anything else, an 8-bit card should be able to double
buffering in 4-bit mode), I haven't seen anyone with just a 4-bit card after
the initial video-RAM crunch.  It seems that if one can afford a Mac
II/IIcx/IIx one would be able to invest the extar $150 to get 8-bit video.


Christopher Chow
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