On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Jon Leech wrote: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 12:18:15AM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote: > ... > > Overlays, are a feature of modern hardware that allows you to use > > 8 bit pseudocolor applications while you are in a truecolor > > visual, etc. > > For values of "modern hardware" in the last 2 or 3 decades (or, in > the case of PC hardware, in the last 2 or 3 years :-)
Near enough, although the feature has been in PC hardware longer than that. It was available in the Matrox Millennium which appeared in 1996, and *some* S3 cards from about the same time. XFree86 support went into what became 4.0 in 1997, too late to be added to 3.3.x. It doesn't seem to have been a popular feature on PC hardware, since the other big names have never supported it. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
