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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 00:45:55 -0500
- From: Faisal Nameer Jawdat <fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: Mac & IBM Info (added Info)
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- The following post only serves to highlight my point, which is that to
- say the mac 'supports' 24 bit colour is ambiguous and misleading.
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- wondertr@fraser.sfu.ca (wondertree learning center) writes:
- > BOTH models of the Quadra line support 24-bit color with their built-in
- > displays... on either 14" or 16" inch monitors and 16-bit color on the 21".
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- You have to add video ram to the Quadra to get 24 bit display.
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- > MAC beacuse the Color QuickDraw handle the conversion for you...
- > THAT's BUILT-IN!!!!
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- It's software. It's in the os. Why not say "All macs support 24 bit
- colour images" and instead say "Mac os includes '32 bit color
- quickdraw' which lets software which makes standard os graphics calls
- display in whatever bit depth it wants, with the os dithering if
- necessary." and then go on to explain the actual hardware issue from
- the hardware standpoint?
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- -- faisal jawdat | "Certainly the game is rigged.
- email: fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu | Don't let that stop you;
- if mail handler barfs | if you don't bet, you can't win."
- fj05@andrew.cmu.edu | -Lazarus Long
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