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- Path: philw.users.xplor.com!user
- From: philw@xplor.com (P A Williamson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Amiga vs. PC
- Date: 16 Mar 1996 00:19:50 GMT
- Organization: Redland Sky Toys
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <philw-1503961611290001@philw.users.xplor.com>
- References: <19960315.6108C0.F4DF@tbag.org>
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- In article <19960315.6108C0.F4DF@tbag.org>, stimber@tbag.org (Scott
- Timberlake) wrote:
-
- > Not one bit. All the 2nd meg does is allow you to use more colors at a
- > greater resolution. With 1m, you can have 24bit color(16.7 million) at
- > 640x480. With 2m, you can have 24bit at 800x600. It would also allow you
- > to use the other color modes at higher resolutions, like 15bit(32,768)
- > and 16bit(65,536). Unless you do lots of 24bit graphics work at HIGH
- > resolutions, it's not worth it.
- > Scott
-
- Well, after years of reading these newsgroups, I've discovered one
- thing...All PC users need the highest resolution possible at 24 bit. Word
- proccessing needs 24 bit, spreadsheets need 24 bit, data bases need 24
- bit... :-)
-