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- From: howarth@rice.edu (Jack W. Howarth)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: 8-bit or 24-bit, that is the question...
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- Date: 17 Aug 1992 01:08:07 GMT
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- Well, now that I have settled on my monitor (a Sony 1304S), I am trying
- to decide whether the extra $200 is worth it to get a Xceed Macro 30 graphics
- board for my SE/30 rather than the 8 bit Xceed 30 board. I am curious
- to hear about real world uses for the 24 bit board and the relative speed
- hit on the SE/30 between 8 and 24 bit color graphics. Oh, I will be in 32 bit
- mode with 8 meg RAM/16 Meg VM. I suspect that a minority of programs will
- make use of 24 bit graphics. I don't have a DW C (just the old DW) so my
- uses for color would be more on screen than for hardcopy. Actually, I would
- use it mainly for molecular graphics and scientific data analysis so I
- suspect 8 bit is enough. Just wanted to check the current conventional wisdom.
- Jack
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