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From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 16-colour X server?
Message-ID: <7679@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 13 Oct 92 12:50:45 GMT
References: <7656@skye.ed.ac.uk> <wolfgang.8.718895049@clio.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>
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In article <wolfgang.8.718895049@clio.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de> wolfgang@clio.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de (Wolfgang R. Mueller) writes:
>>the 8-bit version (unless vga is even more brain-dead than it seems).
>                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>So it is, as every 16-color pixel write needs multiple outb instructions
>to modify the right bits in the right bit planes, and reading is even worse.

I was afraid this would be the case.  Thanks to all those who replied.

On a related point, are there any plans to extend the monochrome server
to >64k?

-- Richard
-- 
Richard Tobin,
Human Communication Research Centre,                       R.Tobin@ed.ac.uk
Edinburgh University.