At 10:14 AM 3/11/96 -0500, A. Padgett Peterson P.E. Information Security wrote:

Note: this refers to the IBM PC & clones only

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The point is that they do a lousy job on dithering. So does Microsoft explorer. They probably purchased the identical code from some clot.

Have been watching this go back and forth & get further from the original question as usual. I suspect that if the original poster looks in her/his/ its/other SYSTEM.INI file, the line "display.drv=vga.drv" will be found in the [boot] section. This is the default 16 color driver installed by Windows to be compatible with every 256k 640x480 VGA card.

And I also remembered to turn the computer on. I can assure you that I know how many colors my screen supports, and I have numerous dithering programs on my computer, two of them written by me. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd@echeque.com