> Sixteen- and twenty-four-bit color weren't just widespread by 1998. They were standard. Maybe in 800x600, but not in higher resolutions. A lot of PCs still

> Sixteen- and twenty-four-bit color weren't just widespread by 1998. They were standard. Maybe in 800x600, but not in higher resolutions. A lot of PCs still had 1MB video ram cards like the S3 trio - I remember running Xwindows on a s3 card that would change the colour palette for whichever app was active when you ran it in 1024x768.