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vilaca | 3 years ago

There's a typo "Since it wasn't like a fixed palette--EGA was like only 16 colors--each of VGA's 256 pallet slots could be set to basically one of 16 million columns."

columns = colors

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rzzzt|3 years ago

Only 6 out of 8 bits per channel were used, so there were only 262144 colors in total to choose from, not millions.