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From: philip@pro-generic.cts.com (Philip McDunnough)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Color
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Date: 5 Feb 90 04:04:16 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from lsr@Apple.COM

>I think you miss the point of having 24-bits per pixel color.The point
>is not that you want to display all the colors at once.The point is that
>you can make each pixel whatever color you want (out of 16.7 million).

>Some users require this capability.

As a user of a IIci(and a GS), the key qualifier here most be "some". Without
the ability to move the pivels around(hence a graphics' accelerator) it is
hard to imagine that "true colour" can be anything but a "niche product".
There are surely more important priorities than 32 bit colour.

  Philip McDunnough
  University of Toronto
  [my opinions]