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From: sdyer@bbncc5.UUCP (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: New color card: 256 colors on a PC!
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Date: Sun, 22-Sep-85 23:25:34 EDT
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> Hmmm... 256 out of 32K colors on a standard PC color display?  Sounds
> interesting.  I wonder if they're working on a higher resolution version
> that would run on the EGS (256 by 350 pixels, perhaps?)
 
No, on a color composite video monitor or analog RGB display.  It's
impossible to display more than 16 colors on an IBM-CGA-compatible
monitor or 64 colors on an Enhanced Color Display: the RGB signals
are digital, not analog, and there are only 4 separate inputs 
(or 6, for the ECD).  
-- 
/Steve Dyer
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