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- From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Quadra 700 + VRAM+ Apple 16 inch = HUH?!!??!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.170301.23358@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 17:03:01 GMT
- Article-I.D.: dartvax.1992Jul21.170301.23358
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- rsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (Roby Sherman) writes:
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- >Would/Could someone please explain to me WHY if you take a Quadra 700,
- >hook it to an Apple 16-inch monitor, and add a VRAM upgrade that you get
- >8-bit (256 colors) and 24-bit (millions) but NO 16-BIT (thousands)???
-
- Simple, because originally when Apple designed the on-board video
- support of the Q700/900 they didn't impliment 16bit color. This has been
- implimented on the 950, as a way to get more than 8bit color on a 21"
- monitor with 2MB VRAM.
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