From: doug@hparc0.aus.hp.com (Doug Parsons)
Subject: Re: 48-bit graphics...
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Apollo (now HP) have a graphics board that does 80-bit graphics.  When I 
heard that, I jumped.  The answer isn't that it can do 100 trillion-trillion-
trillion colors.  It actually does 10 planes of 8-bits (or 5 planes of 16
bits, etc.)  for very fast graphics.

douginoz.