[comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc] colors

bill@pro-gateway.cts.com (Bill Long, SysOp) (01/01/91)

How many colors can the MultiSync 5D display at one time, and how many total
colors are available?

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ron@woan (Ronald S. Woan) (01/02/91)

In article <6649@crash.cts.com>, bill@pro-gateway.cts.com (Bill Long,
SysOp) writes:
>How many colors can the MultiSync 5D display at one time, and how many total
>colors are available?

It's analog right? It's not the display that limits your colors, it's
the display card and/or computer that you are using to drive it.

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poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) (01/03/91)

In article <6649@crash.cts.com> bill@pro-gateway.cts.com (Bill Long, SysOp) writes:
>How many colors can the MultiSync 5D display at one time, and how many total
>colors are available?
>

Basically, with analog monitors such as this, the number of colors the montor
itself can display is infinite for all practical purposes. Since the three
color guns are driven by analog signals, the number of colors depends on how
fine the resolution from the card can be.

The limitation will be from the graphics cards. simple VGA and SVGA can do from
16 to 256 colors simultaneously (depending on card and mode), out of a palatte
of 262144.

Many advanced graphics workstations can do 256 colors out of a palatte of 4
million, and others can do considerably more.

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silver@xrtll.uucp (Hi Ho Silver) (01/03/91)

In article <6649@crash.cts.com> bill@pro-gateway.cts.com (Bill Long, SysOp) writes:
$How many colors can the MultiSync 5D display at one time, and how many total
$colors are available?

   It, like other analog monitors, will display an essentially infinite number
of colours.  How many colours are available depends on the display board
you're using.
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