On 13 Jan 2005, at 15:50, Andrew, a Mac Freak wrote:
Yes, he probably got 256 colors from the limitation of the 040 board. I
haven't seen a CRT yet that limits the amount of colors produced.
You're not old enough to remember the earliest graphics standards, then! While the CRT wasn't limited, the fact that you could only connect to the monitor using a FGH connector, and FGH only supported 256 colours meant that there was an effective limit.
Of course, a modern 1024 x 768 CRT can only display fewer than 800,000 different colours at once!
Stuart
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