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		ventana 2 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The four programming questions from my 1994 Micros... So, first of all, of course, a rhetorical question. Modern interns will probably assume at least 4 bytes per pixel (R, G, B, and A). But the original post actually talks about CGA [1] with just four colors. Encoding a color needs two bits then, so each byte encodes four pixels. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter

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Akronymus 2 days ago [–]

Oh right. Guess the " (2 bits per color? how is that possible)" is what threw me off there, because I read it as 2 bits per colour channel, rather than cga colour. Of course, "indexed" colours can get away with much fewer bits.

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