Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcrware!tim
From: tim@mcrware.UUCP (Tim Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: RAVE
Message-ID: <1503@mcrware.UUCP>
Date: 2 Feb 90 15:15:41 GMT
References: <YZgslrm00WB9A11IgR@andrew.cmu.edu> <12794@cbnewsd.ATT.COM> <1495@mcrware.UUCP> <12979@cbnewsd.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: tim@mcrware.UUCP (Tim Harris)
Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Iowa
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In article <12979@cbnewsd.ATT.COM> knudsen@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (michael.j.knudsen) writes:
>I never heard of "CLUT" before, but it sounds like bits per pixel.

	CLUT stands for Color Look-Up Table, basically the same thing as the
term Palette for the Color Computer.  The 8 bits for the pixel don't have 
the color but the index into the look-up table.  The actual color data
has 8 bits per Red, Green and Blue component.  

	Tim Harris (...!sun!mcrware!tim)