\pard\tx960\tx1920\tx2880\tx3840\tx4800\tx5760\tx6720\tx7680\tx8640\tx9600 supports full 32-bit “real” color -- approximately 16 million colors can be displayed at any given pixel. The hardware is configured as 8 bits of each color component: red, green, blue and alpha. The alpha component may be used to record relative transparency for any given pixel.\
\pard\tx960\tx1920\tx2880\tx3840\tx4800\tx5760\tx6720\tx7680\tx8640\tx9600 Color supports 16-bit color -- 4 bits each: R, G, B and alpha. This allows 4096 different colors to be displayed at any given pixel. In addition, the Window Server uses dithering to make the images look more realistic. Neither machine supports color-mapped color.\
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Q: When using the color machines can I turn the color “off” (so that it will run in 2-bit mode) to increase performance?\
\pard\tx960\tx1920\tx2880\tx3840\tx4800\tx5760\tx6720\tx7680\tx8640\tx9600 board speeds up the color operations to give performance equivalent to a monochrome cube with a MegaPixel display.\
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Q: If I read a TIFF file into the NeXT which contains a color palette, will the sofware understand the palette correctly or will it ignore that information as in 1.0?\
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\i0 A: Although NeXTStep does not, in general, support palette-based imaging, there is limited support in the 2.0 release. TIFF files which contain 8-bit palettes of 24-bit color values will be read in and converted to 32-bit color images; other palettes-based images will not be understood.\