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From: ripley@nostromo.in-berlin.de (H. Eckert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: Re: no such thing as a "general user community"
Date: 23 Mar 1997 17:00:11 GMT
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dillon@flea.best.net (Matt Dillon):
>     Absolutely, but 'visual computing' does not equate to full 3D graphics
>     in 24 million colors running at 70 frames a sec.  For anyone doing
>     serious work outside of video editing or, say, 16-layer PC board CAD/CAM,
>     256 colors is plenty.  While I wouldn't MIND having a kick-ass 3D
>     workbench, it doesn't help me get my job done any faster.

While I agree that 256 colours are normally enough for every single
application (including easy graphics stuff like displaying bitmap
images etc.), the moment you run more than one application at the
same time you get these ugly palette overlaps.  So the 16bit colour
scheme I can choose on my Mac at work is quite useful if one
application grabs too many of the 256 colour slots at a time.

Greetings,
				Ripley


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