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- From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Brian Hughes)
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- Subject: Re: Info on the New Macs coming Feg 10th
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 15:27:00 GMT
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- GREMICF@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (M. David Greenspon) writes:
-
- >In article <1993Jan19.041254.8000@selway.umt.edu>
- >cs000rjp@selway.umt.edu (Russell J. Pagenkopf) writes:
- >>
- >>In article <727252206.AA01084@contrast.wlink.nl> qsi@contrast.wlink.nl (Peter Kocourek) writes:
-
- >>>What does that translate to, pixel-wise? Does this mean 16-bit color on
- >>>13-inch (640*480) monitors?
-
- Well, no it doesn't mean that you will have extra colors on a
- 640x480 monitor, see below...
-
- >It probably _does_ translate to something pixel-wise. They are probably
- >talking about the Apple 16" Monitor, which is 832 x 624 pixels.
-
- Yes, they are talking about 832x624 monitors when they refer to 16",
- but this isn't what the person was asking.
-
- >>Eight bit color works the same way. Eight bit color means 256 colors on
- >>the screen at once, just because you change the monitor size doesn't mean
- >>you increase or decrease the number of colors. If you want 16 bit color,
- >>you are still going to have to buy the graphics card.
- >
- >Well, this depends on how the LC III handles things. The LC, for example,
- >supports up to four-bit color on 13" monitors, but on 12" monitors it can
- >handle eight-bit color. So the LC III _could_ give you more colors with
- >smaller screen sizes (it doesn't sound like it will, but it _could_).
-
- What it depends on, really, is how much VRAM the LCIII will be able
- to handle. From the specs it looks as though it will come with 512k
- standard. Which is enough VRAM to support 8-bit color on 13" and 16"
- monitors. The 4-bit to 8-bit trick of the LC/LCII is because they come
- with 256k of VRAM, standard, that was just not enough to do 8-bit on
- 640x480 monitors, but was enough for the 12" which had fewer pixels. Due
- to the number of pixels, the jump to 16-bit color on these 2 monitors
- cannot be reached with less than 1MB of VRAM. Hopefully, the LCIII will
- have this option, but I don't know.
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-