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From: ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies)
Subject: Re: A3000UX vs. Sun Sparc
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.134613.4723@grebyn.com>
Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
References: <n59Gl=0q1@cs.psu.edu> <1991Apr16.030609.1746@grebyn.com> <1991Apr17.104408.6012@cc.helsinki.fi>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1991 13:46:13 GMT

In article <1991Apr17.104408.6012@cc.helsinki.fi> jalkio@cc.helsinki.fi writes:
>In article <1991Apr16.030609.1746@grebyn.com>, ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) writes:
>> My comprehensive comparison of Sparc IPC vs. NeXTstation vs. A3000:
>> 
>> Sparc has the largest color palette (16M; Amiga & NeXT, 4096)
>
>I don't think so. NeXTstation also has 16.7M pallette and with 4096
>on-screen colors (with megapixel!).

Uh, I'm pretty sure that the NeXTstation Color uses 16 bit pixels, with
12 bits of direct color (4R, 4G, 4B) and 4 bits of "alpha". I'm not
sure what the alpha is used for; there's no capability of mixing with an
external video source. And there's no color palette at all. Rather like
megapixel HAM with no fringing. :-)
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