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Re:The Acorn Archimedes was the first desktop to use the ARM... by mcv on Friday June 26, 2020 @07:38AM (#23650866)
You're probably right. I do remember hearing about 4 million colours at the time, and being wowed by the amazingly subtle colour, but 4 million does indeed sound very unlikely.
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Re:The Acorn Archimedes was the first desktop to use the ARM... by walkingolof on Friday June 26, 2020 @08:11AM (#23651080)
I was an A3000 owner, it had a 4096 color palette (12 bits), note "palette", the best resolutions supported 1 byte per pixel, so 256 colors on screen, out of 4096.
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Re:The Acorn Archimedes was the first desktop to use the ARM... by mkl on Friday June 26, 2020 @09:03AM (#23651501)
Nitpick: That would be a 256 colour palette, from a 4096 colour colour-space.
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Re:The Acorn Archimedes was the first desktop to use the ARM... by walkingolof on Friday June 26, 2020 @11:40AM (#23653212)
Your right, but the terms where never used correctly back in the day..
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