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Thousands and “millions of colors” in the control panel came from the CRT days. Guess they didn’t have the heart to reduce that just because the display device didn’t fully support it.



It's the difference between 16 bits per pixel and 32 bits per pixel in VRAM.

A screen using 18 bits per pixel (6 bits per color) would need the 'millions of colors' mode unless Apple designed some clever hack.




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