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- From: jbutcher@nucleus.cuc.ab.ca (Jim Butcher)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: vga - 16bit?
- References: <BsLCBt.2AG@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Message-ID: <jbutcher.05x4@nucleus.cuc.ab.ca>
- Date: 16 Aug 92 14:25:42 MST
- Organization: The Nucleus 16 Lines 403-531-9353 -CNet Amiga-
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- In article <BsLCBt.2AG@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
- (Iskandar Taib) writes:
- >In article <exuptr.187.713043878@exu.ericsson.se> exuptr@exu.ericsson.se
- (Patric
- >k Taylor) writes:
- >
- >>What they meant by "16-bit" was that there is a 16 bit bus interface on
- >>the vga cards. VGA color does use 6 bits per color, mapped in a palette
- >>of either 16 or 256 colors (4 or 8 bit pixels). Usually the VGA output
- >>is analog, so you won't need a 25 pin connector to hook it up.
- >
- >
- >Perhaps... but it would be worth mentioning that VGA displays
- >256 colors _out_of_a_64K_color_pallete_. Thats why 256 color
- >SVGA looks tons better than a 4096 color Amiga display which
- >can display 4096 colors out of 4096, and dithered ones at that.
- >
- >
- >
- >--
- >----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- --
- >Iskandar Taib | The only thing worse than Peach ala
- >Internet: NTAIB@SILVER.UCS.INDIANA.EDU | Frog is Frog ala Peach
- >Bitnet: NTAIB@IUBACS !
- actually, it is 256 colors out of a possible 256K colors, not a possible 64K
-