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- From: klui@corp.hp.com (Kenneth K.F. Lui)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics,alt.graphics.pixutils
- Subject: Re: Your one stop GRAPHICS shop!
- Date: 7 Jan 1993 01:14:32 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company
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- In article <1993Jan6.211549.3207@a.cs.okstate.edu> jmccorm@a.cs.okstate.edu (MCCORMICK JOSHUA C) writes:
- > The main
- >problems (or one of them) is that they require too much information to
- >go over an ISA bus with any speed.
-
- Upgrade to a 486 with local-bus video.
-
- > The thought of running a GUI on a PC
- >in a 24 bit color mode scares me, unless there's a coprocessor hooked onto
- >the card.
- >
- I have a Mac at home, and I find that running 32-bit video is
- tolerable. Even telecom programs run without losing data at V.32
- (my modem's old and don't have V.32bis). I can always switch to
- 8-bit on the fly.
-
- >Until software and hardware catches up, it's going to be a while before
- >24 bit color takes off.
- >
- They're just beginning to become popular with all the coverage
- multimedia is getting.
-
-
- Ken
-
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