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From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: 16-colour X server?
Message-ID: <7656@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 9 Oct 92 14:33:05 GMT
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Has anyone written / is anyone writing / are there any plans for a
16-colour driver for XFree386?  This would be useful for those of us
with video boards with only 512k and should also be twice as fast as
the 8-bit version (unless vga is even more brain-dead than it seems).

-- Richard
-- 
Richard Tobin,
Human Communication Research Centre,                       R.Tobin@ed.ac.uk
Edinburgh University.