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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!ogicse!hsdndev!dartvax!coos.dartmouth.edu!hades
  2. From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
  4. Subject: Re: Quadra 700 + VRAM+ Apple 16 inch = HUH?!!??!
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul21.170301.23358@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
  6. Date: 21 Jul 92 17:03:01 GMT
  7. Article-I.D.: dartvax.1992Jul21.170301.23358
  8. References: <14h9muINNnb6@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
  9. Sender: news@dartvax.dartmouth.edu (The News Manager)
  10. Reply-To: hades@Dartmouth.Edu
  11. Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
  12. Lines: 14
  13. Disclaimer: Personally, I really don't care who you think I speak for.
  14. Moderator: Rec.Arts.Comics.Info
  15.  
  16. rsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (Roby Sherman) writes:
  17.  
  18. >Would/Could someone please explain to me WHY if you take a Quadra 700,
  19. >hook it to an Apple 16-inch monitor, and add a VRAM upgrade that you get
  20. >8-bit (256 colors) and 24-bit (millions) but NO 16-BIT (thousands)???
  21.  
  22.     Simple, because originally when Apple designed the on-board video
  23. support of the Q700/900 they didn't impliment 16bit color. This has been
  24. implimented on the 950, as a way to get more than 8bit color on a 21"
  25. monitor with 2MB VRAM.
  26.  
  27. --
  28.             "Seems awfully breezy in here." - Drip-along Daffy
  29. -Hades (Brian V. Hughes, Moderator: Rec.Arts.Comics.Info)
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