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- From: sold@kit.uni-kl.de (Christoph Sold)
- Subject: Re: 8-bit or 24-bit, that is the question...
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- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 21:06:12 GMT
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- In article <howarth.714013687@proto> howarth@rice.edu (Jack W. Howarth) writes:
- >Subject: 8-bit or 24-bit, that is the question...
- >From: howarth@rice.edu (Jack W. Howarth)
- >Date: 17 Aug 1992 01:08:07 GMT
- >
- > 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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- >Jack W. Howarth, Ph.D. Univ. of Texas Medical School
- >Research Fellow P.O. Box 20708
- >Department of Biochemistry Houston, Texas 77225
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- >howarth@proto.med.uth.tmc.edu Phone: 713-792-5667 FAX: 713-794-4150
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- If you follow me, get a board that supports 16 bits too -- this is the bit
- depth quicktime uses at its best speed. 24 bit will need some additional
- time to convert to, and dithering to 8 bits is still slower.
-
- -Christoph
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