From: Rogier Wolff (wolff@liberator.et.tudelft.nl)
Date: 02/17/93


From: wolff@liberator.et.tudelft.nl (Rogier Wolff)
Subject: Re: XFree 1.2 and 64-gray-scale LCD display
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1993 20:39:55 GMT

wolff@liberator.et.tudelft.nl (Rogier Wolff) writes:

>Nope. All VGA cards use a max 6 bit color DACs. They have upto 8 bits that
>go into the (upto 256 entry) color-lookup-table, which has entries that
>contain 3 times 6 bits.

Oh well.... to be perfectly correct I should say that there are also
very modern VGA's that have MORE than 6 bit DACs, but these are not
common.

                                        Roger.

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