That suit was settled recently. The two guys who sued couldn't get anyone to sign on to their class action.Computers "think" in binary...
The Apple II had a 3-bit colour mode (hi-res) with 8 colours (two of which were duplicates), so it's far from non-sensical. 3-bit colour on an SE sounds like a clever hack to make the most of scarce resources.
FWIW, Apple is currently being sued over their 6x6x6-bit iMac display (262,144 colours) which they tried to pass of as "millions" of colours, so as you can see there are no hard rules concerning powers of 2.
Post #6 by Quadraman
| Source Forum | 68kMLA |
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| Category | Peripherals |
| Post Date | Wed, 2 Apr 2008 - 19:49 |
| Original URL | https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/se-3-bit-colour.12636/ |
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