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- From: t92etr@tdb.uu.se (Erik Trulsson)
- Subject: Re: Three AGA questions.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.093926.5786@tdb.uu.se>
- Organization: Dept. of Scientific Computing, Uppsala Univ.
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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 09:39:26 GMT
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- Steve Koren (koren@fc.hp.com) wrote:
- : Mattias Dahlberg (matt-dah@dsv.su.se) wrote:
- :
- : > since then 256000 will be the number of pixels. But shouldn't it
- : > be 262144 on all higher resolutions...?
- :
- : What's a couple of thousand colors here or there? :-) But seriously, I
- : think the correct value is 2^18+64. (Ie, there are 64 base registers
- : you can set to whatever you want, and you can HAM your way to 2^18 more
- : colors beyond those).
-
- Well,those 64 base registers are probably part of the 2^18 colors.
- I think that the number 256000 comes from confusion with 256k (256*1024=262144).
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