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From: black@masscomp.ccur.com (Sam Black)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Gray-scale demos wanted!
Message-ID: <6618@masscomp.ccur.com>
Date: 5 Jan 90 20:55:26 GMT
References: <9001050139.AA21346@bird.visual.uu.net> <1340@acorn.co.uk>
Reply-To: black@westford.ccur.com (Sam Black)
Organization: Concurrent Computer Corporation - Westford, Ma
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In article <1340@acorn.co.uk> john@acorn.UUCP (John Bowler) writes:
>Are any other vendors thinking of depth 2 support?

We support a depth 2 visual (and corresponding PIXMAPs) for our overlay planes.
It's represented as 2 bits per pixel, padded to longword boundaries (8 pixels
per longword).

>Why were the pixmap *formats* restricted to those 6 values, while the 
>depths were left unrestricted?

Pixmap formats are only restricted by your imagination :-)

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