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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