Re: terminal emulator

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On Sat, Jun 22, 2024 at 10:53:46AM -0700, George Georgalis wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 12:08?PM Greg A. Woods <woods%planix.ca@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > I'm still confused....  What's wrong with using Terminal for the mac?
> 
> You say it's missing 24-bit colour support?  But what for?  How can you
> 
> need more than 256 colours in a terminal?  Xterm has the same limit.

Having a "palette" of 256 colours doesn't mean that the colors are
8bits based (3x3x2 generally). You can perfectly have only 256 colors,
chosen by an index in the [0,255] range, but each entry is defined by a
16bits value, a 24 bits value, a 32 bits value (8x8x8 + transparency)
etc.
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