CompuServe Messages

Charlie, one point immediately sticks out: the 32 million colors. Sounds like yet another ignorant teenager trying to improve all current specs; in this case, they've got egg all over their face. The reason you don't see microcomputer graphics go beyond 16 million colors is simple: that number represents 24 bits per pixel. A nice, round number in computer terms. To have 32 million colors would be (a) complicated — why add a 9th bit to either the red, green or blue component? and (b) totally useless, as 256 shades of each primary color are more than enough to satisfy the human eye. Blaq!