alt Hacker News> (2 bits per color? how is that possible)
Assuming high colour depth, yes, but wouldn’t it have been specified as part of the question that ‘this was for four-color CGA mode’? I think 2 bits per colour for 4 colours total seem pretty sensible even in 2026. :-)
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lstodd • yesterday at 10:41 PM
2bpp is indexed obviously, question in 1994 would be is it bitplane or packed
Their point, I believe, is that someone (just about any younger person in 2026) who has never seen indexed color modes, or colors taking less than one byte per pixel to encode, could reasonably be confused by the notion of "two bits per pixel".